Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonction, and criticism, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and more. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is the author of the novel All My Mother’s Lovers (2020) and a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Here for All the Reasons: #BachelorNation on Why We Watch. Her new novel, Beings, comes out with Bloomsbury on September 23, 2025.
Ilana Masad
Articles
If There’s Truth in Cinema, It’s Sideways
Ilana Masad interviews Katharine Coldiron about her new collection of essays, “Out There in the Dark.”
Nothing Happens Nowhere
Ilana Masad interviews Emma Copley Eisenberg about her first novel, “Housemates.”
In the In-Between: Identity, Place, and Nuance in Anita Felicelli’s “Love Songs for a Lost Continent”
"Love Songs for a Lost Continent" by Anita Felicelli, her debut short story collection, is a marvel of nuance, with each story complicating the narrative.
A Fabulist Tour of “Awayland”
Ramona Ausubel’s “Awayland” weaves a beautiful tapestry of emotion and whimsy.
Middle East, Middle Class: Pain and Privilege in Hala Alyan’s “Salt Houses”
Ilana Masad reviews Hala Alyan's "Salt Houses."
The Color of Art: On Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Debut
Ilana Masad on Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's "Harmless Like You."
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