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Reviews that argue, not summarise. Each one asks whose story is told, who is absent, and what structures the book reinforces or resists.
Across intersectionality, decolonial thought, agency, and margins.
Reviews that argue, not summarise. Each one asks whose story is told, who is absent, and what structures the book reinforces or resists.
Across intersectionality, decolonial thought, agency, and margins.

Editor's Picks

Curated voices from our latest issue

Editor's Pick Issue 9 - Violence

Review: What I Don’t Tell You

By Urna Bose
The argument asserts that poetry's strategic 'space' cultivates readerly agency, fostering profound self-knowledge and resilience by navigating the complexities of human experience.

Memory & Time

A curated collection

Issue 9 - Violence

Review: What I Don’t Tell You

By Urna Bose

The argument asserts that poetry's strategic 'space' cultivates readerly agency, fostering profound self-knowledge and resilience by navigating the complexities of...

Matchbox - October '25

Review: The Dandelions Have It

By Kabir Deb

The text explores how an imagined, interconnected world, imbued with kindness, challenges conventional reality, positing a framework for healing the...

Issue 10 - The Body

Review: A City Full of Sirens

By Kavita Parwani Talib

Mhatre's poetry confronts the raw intersections of urban life, grief, and brutal finitude, demanding an uncomfortable reckoning with shared human...

Issue 7 - Environment

Review: A Sky Full of Bucket Lists

By G. Akila

Leveraging experimental haibun, the collection articulates memory and grief, probing how formal innovations can render abstract human experience beyond conventional...

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Matchbox – May ’26

Review: India’s Forests

By Suchi Govindarajan

A collection of academic essays dismantles romantic notions of India's forests as untouched wilderness, revealing instead centuries of human entanglement...

Matchbox - April '26

Review: Mohinir Thaan

By Averi Saha

Anis's novel rigorously critiques cisnormativity and systemic violence, exposing complex transgender realities in Bangladesh while asserting profound claims to dignity...

Matchbox - February '26

Review: Real Life

By Rituparna Mukherjee

Real Life contends that AI's ubiquitous integration, by mirroring inherent human biases and surveillance, fundamentally reshapes reality, demanding ethical reassessment...

Matchbox - March '26

Review: That’s a Fire Ant Right There

By Rituparna Mukherjee

Khadeer Babu's work delineates a transitioning Indian small town's complex social realities, particularly women's agency and inter-community dynamics, underscoring translation's...

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