Anita Felicelli is a writer who studied English, rhetoric, art, and law at UC Berkeley. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times (Modern Love), Babble, The Rumpus, India Currents, Publishing Perspectives, Brain, Child, and elsewhere. She is the author of the novel Sparks Off You, a finalist in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, as well as a poetry collection. She lives in Northern California where she is currently working on another novel.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Outside Language and Power: The Mastery of Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”
Anita Felicelli on Arundhati Roy's long-awaited second novel....
“The Cauliflower”: Deconstruction of a Hindu Mystic’s Spiritual Legacy
Anita Felicelli on Nicola Barker's "The Cauliflower"....
A Sense of a Real Home
"The Year of the Runaways" and "The Association of Small Bombs" both address political violence in North India and lives of Punjabis abroad....
The Memories of Elephants
Violence plays an essential, defining role in novelist Tania James’s stunning second novel, The Tusk That Did the Damage. The novel shines a necessary light on the challenges faced when living alongside the wild....
To Live Ideologically Is to Narrow Your Life
An Interview with Xiaolu Guo...
“The Moment” in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland”
The history at the beginning of The Lowland is not a flaw, it is centrally important to the novel....
“The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri: Two Reviews
Two review of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland."...
