Priyanka Kumar is the author of the widely acclaimed book Conversations with Birds (2022). Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion, and The Rumpus.
Priyanka Kumar
Articles
The Shield That Protects Us: Monarch Butterflies, Biodiversity, and the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
Priyanka Kumar writes that the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is essential to preserving not only the monarch butterfly but also biodiversity itself.
Messengers from the Past
Priyanka Kumar visits New Mexico's Bosque del Apache.
In Search of Strong Women
Priyanka Kumar considers Manal al-Sharif's "Daring to Drive" and Omar Saif Ghobash's "Letters to a Young Muslim."
What King Learned from Gandhi
Priyanka Kumar tells us what these two 20th-century luminaries shared.
A Painful Truth
Priyanka Kumar on the painful truth of Trump's presidency. - BLARB
Bad Hombres
Priyanka Kumar on Donald Trump and Bad Hombres for BLARB
Turn Left or Get Shot
Priyanka Kumar on Elizabeth Hinton's "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime."
Are We Done Punishing Black Men?
After Michelle Alexander’s measured assessment of mass incarceration in "The New Jim Crow," it is no longer possible to look the other way.
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