Ling Ma’s new short story collection, Bliss Montage, leads us down strange, stimulating paths — and then leaves us before we can fully gather our bearings.
Tag: immigrants
Book Review: The Brief, Gorgeous and Honest World of Ocean Vuong
'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous' shows readers that even in the loss, there’s redemption, and a beauty of sorts only if one knows where to find it.
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’: More Than an Immigrant Story, a Leap Across Many Worlds
The film shows stunning imagination and ambition, cool but with some banal preaching.
Our World, Their World: An Account of an Indian Student at a US University
My excitement to be part of a diverse department fell flat when the reality hit that international students, for most part, are invisible on campus.
‘Axomiya or Bongali?’ What Growing Up Bilingual in Assam Taught Me About Its Fraught Past
Brought up by an Assamese father and a Bengali Hindu mother, for the longest time I didn't know about the cultural fault line dividing these communities.