Sumana Roy is the author of How I Became a Tree (2017), Missing: A Novel (2018), Out of Syllabus: Poems (2019), and My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019). She teaches at Ashoka University in Haryana, India.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Creative-Critical, Inc.
Rather than occasional criticism by amateurs, I should think the whole enterprise might be seriously taken in hand by professionals. Perhaps ...
Guilt Lit
The way it ought to be I leave to the sociologists.” —Toni Morrison WE ARE LIVING in the age of public ...
The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader....
On Being Raised by New Critics in a Small Indian Town
What literary studies lost when the New Critics were dethroned....
On Gravity and Play: In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship....
The Deeply Unserious, Important Work of Amit Chaudhuri
Sumana Roy on the joy and influence of Amit Chaudhuri's work....
