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Up-and-Coming: A Look at Emerging Authors from South Asia
Literary luminaries like Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses) and Kamila Shamsie (A God in Every Stone) have dominated the South Asian writing landscape, but there are more heavyweights who merit...
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Round-Down: A Year of Publishing Only Women
In a surprising move, And Other Stories, an independent publisher in the United Kingdom, decided last week to take up novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call for publishers to take a stand against gender bias...
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Round-Down: Historical Underpinnings of Continual Sexism in Publishing
Writer Catherine Nichols’ recent experiment, in which she submitted a manuscript to agents under a male pseudonym and received eight-and-a-half times the number of responses that the same manuscript...
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Family and the State in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
In her most recent novel, Home Fire, recently awarded the Women’s Prize, Kamila Shamsie moves Sophocles’s Antigone to contemporary London, besieged by the warring threats of Islamophobia and the War on...
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