VOL. 38, NO. 2 

(SPRING/SUMMER 2022)

CONTENTS

India Subfocus
Sri Craven with Murzban F. Shroff (Conversation), Murzban F. Shroff (Fiction), Sri Craven (Essay), Michael Wutz with Amitav Ghosh (Conversation), and Helen Mulder (Essay)

Conversation
Ashley Marie Farmer with Brandon Hobson, Libby Leonard with Joy Priest, Abraham Smith and others with Eduardo C. Corral, Michael Wutz with Ramin Bahrani, and Laura Stott and Moran Harris with Kiki Petrosino

Poetry
Kenneth Chamlee, Dana Sonnenschein, Kathy B. Austin, Henry Hughes, and William Snyder

Essay
Nicola A. Corbin, John Sitter, Larry Menlove, and Ron McFarland

Fiction
Jonathan Ferrini, G.D. McFetridge, and Terry Sanville

Art   Don Rimx

BROWSE THE ISSUE

“Stories, I believe, are never written for a certain audience, at least not the kind that seek to inform and illuminate, the ones that don’t play to popular tastes. But stories do have a certain intention; there is something deeper, a subconscious bug that drives the writer, goading him, reassuring him, that he can reveal something to himself and his readers. The whole purpose of writing a story is that the writer, gripped by his own dilemmas, lives with them, journeys with them, and is transformed at the end of it; in the bargain, he can transform the reader. ”

—Murzban F. Shroff

COMMENTARY:

READING THE WEST

Spring/Summer 2022

The Migration Policy Institute reported that, as of 2019, about 2.7 million Indian immigrants reside in the U.S. Indian immigrants account for approximately 6% of the U.S. foreign-born population, making them the second largest immigrant group in the country.         

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