The author discusses his new book on Merle Oberon, the Golden Age of Hollywood starlet whose South Asian heritage was hidden from the industry.
I had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.
The author of Sucker Punch on surrendering to life's cycles, writing about her divorce, and picking the right fights.
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The author discusses his new book on Merle Oberon, the Golden Age of Hollywood starlet whose South Asian heritage was hidden from the industry.
I had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.
The author of Sucker Punch on surrendering to life's cycles, writing about her divorce, and picking the right fights.
Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.
The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on euphemistic violence, Western hypocrisy, and personal complicity.
The author of The Extinction of Irina Rey on writing a literary sitcom about life, death and climate change.
Back in high school a friend had called me Matt Damon in the drawl of Team America, but the connection to Tom Ripley felt more psychic, fundamental.
I learned to ignore the doubt that lapped at my ankles, a wave that rose every time I kissed him goodbye, left town for work or travel, and remembered, with a shock, how happily whole I felt alone.
They are often stewed foods, sometimes steamed or boiled. They are foods defined by their colours first—in this context, the lack of colour, the overall sameness, somehow gets misread as a fault.
