Anita Felicelli has contributed essays and reviews to the New York Times (Modern Love), San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon. Her short stories have been published in The Normal School, Joyland, Kweli Journal, Eckleburg, Strangelet Journal, and Stockholm Review, and have thrice been finalists in the Glimmer Train awards. She is the author of Sparks Off You, a finalist in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, as well as the poetry collection Letters to an Albatross (BlazeVOX). She holds a BA in Rhetoric, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies (art) from UC Berkeley and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a former litigator and is working on a novel.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Missed Connections: Hanne Ørstavik’s “Love”
Despite its brevity, Hanne Ørstavik's "Love," effectively rendered into English by Martin Aitken, demands and deserves total concentration....
Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Dreams in “Future Home of the Living God”
Anita Felicelli finds flaw and favor in Louise Erdrich’s dystopian novel “Future Home of the Living God.”...
The Intellectual Roots of the Radical Right
Anita Felicelli on Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."...
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."...
