Ariel Saramandi

Ariel Saramandi is a Mauritian writer and essayist. She is a nonfiction editor of the Bare Life Review, and her work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Boulevard, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and other places. She is represented by Lisa Baker at Aitken Alexander Associates.

Homemaking: On Olivia Sudjic’s “Asylum Road”

Ariel Saramandi reviews “Asylum Road” by Olivia Sudjic....

FICTION

The World’s Election: A View from Mauritius

Seriously, go back to bed,” I read on Twitter. “It’s not your election.” Many Americans are sympathetic to yet baffled by the notion that the world is so totally engrossed in their country at the moment. We non-Americans sleep poorly, ...

The World’s Election: A View from Mauritius

ARIEL SARAMANDI

Une Petite Grippe: A COVID-19 Dispatch from Mauritius

ARIEL SARAMANDI

Acts of Memory, Acts of Power: On Shenaz Patel’s “Silence of the Chagos”

AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

“There Is Too Much Feminism”: On the Rise of the Mauritian Alt-Right

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

GENDER & SEXUALITY