Secondhand Desire: On Sanjena Sathian’s “Gold Diggers”
Sanjena Sathian’s new novel is a sharp satire of second-generation Indian American strivers.
Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her short stories have most recently appeared in Air/Light, Alta, Midnight Breakfast, and The Massachusetts Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times’s Modern Love, Slate, Salon, and Catapult. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
Sanjena Sathian’s new novel is a sharp satire of second-generation Indian American strivers.
Anita Felicelli reviews the new novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, "Klara and the Sun."
Anita Felicelli reviews “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,” the new short story collection from Laura van den Berg.
Anita Felicelli observes “Antkind,” the debut novel from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
Anita Felicelli reviews “That Hair,” the recently released novel from Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails.
Anita Felicelli on the firebrand Ishmael Reed’s latest novel, “Conjugating Hindi,” which is out now from Dalkey Archive Press.
Despite its brevity, Hanne Ørstavik's "Love," effectively rendered into English by Martin Aitken, demands and deserves total concentration.