Breaking Out: Women and Girls on Their Own Terms Mona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls), Tamil writer Ambai (A Kitchen in the Corner of the House), and Téa Obreht (Inland) bring to life strong female voices of the past and present. From Eltahaway’s powerful #MeToo manifesto to Obreht’s reimagining the American […]

Looking Back: Memoir, Auto-Fiction and the Worlds that Shape Us With Scholastique Mukasonga, Aleksandar Hemon, and Amit Chaudhuri. Moderated by Amitava Kumar. Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and under-developed […]