Bookshelf by Usawa
Across ULR and Matchbox — essays, reviews, excerpts, and interviews in conversation with books that shape our time.

Letters From Your Therapist: On Love And Loss
by Kareena Mehta
Excerpts

The Man Traps
by Kalashree Sengupta
The Man Traps helps women recognize toxic relationship patterns, emotional manipulation, and trauma bonding before they become deeply...
Excerpts

moon blooms
by Athira Unni
Athira Unni asks the important questions: whether our lives are just storyboards, and when it’s gone, whether we...
Excerpts

Stories the Fire could not Burn
by Hoihnu Hauzel
Journalist and author Hauzel writes from inside the Kuki-Zomi experience of Manipur's devastating ethnic conflict — the night...
Book Reviews

Mohinir Thaan
by Nasima Anis
Nasima Anis's Mohini, translated from the Bengali by Sarban Bandyopadhyay, follows Mohini — a transwoman — navigating the...
Book Reviews

Shadows of Azadi
by Ezabir Ali
In Kashmir, azadi — freedom — means something different to every woman who reaches for it. To one,...
Translations
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