Language Is a Place: A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri
The plurilingual author discusses her art, the magic of writers’ diaries, and the sacred task of translation.
Urmila Seshagiri is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee. The author of Race and the Modernist Imagination (Cornell, 2010), she is completing a book about the complex legacy of modernist aesthetics titled Still Shocking: Modernism and Fiction in the 21st Century. Her scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf’s memoir Sketch of the Past is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She is the Out of the Archives Editor for Feminist Modernist Studies.
The plurilingual author discusses her art, the magic of writers’ diaries, and the sacred task of translation.
Urmila Seshagiri reviews Jonathan Franzen's "Purity."
Urmila Seshagiri review's Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (Knopf, 2013).
Two review of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland."