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Shock Value
The Sun
Recently I co-taught a university writing seminar in which a talented student from a wealthy Chinese Singaporean family presented a short story of harrowing childhood sexual abuse.
Wormhole
Southern Humanities Review
I think the first place I saw the wormhole was above the sink where the mirror should have been, in the women’s bathroom at Moustakas diner in Falmouth.
Antyesti in Brooklyn: How NYC honored my father upon his death, during a time of anti-Asian hate
Salon
I went to New York to perform this final ritual for my father, unable to move fearlessly as I once did.
Hot Asian Babes
The Millions
“Cheap, aren’t they?” The white woman, a townie, smug in her brown and shabby cardigan, asks me this without prelude, not even a stereotypically British and blustery, “Fine day, isn’t it?”
The Enduring Appeal Of Escaping Our Own Brains
Bustle
Twelve years after A Visit from the Goon Squad, author Jennifer Egan returns in sci-fi fashion.
The Radical Way Author Xochitl Gonzalez Overcame Imposter Syndrome
Bustle
What does it take to change your life entirely?
Elizabeth McCracken Interviewed by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Bomb
A novel about filial devotion that inspires a lesson in writing.
Golden milk, Hindu pilgrimages and a state mental hospital: A personal history told through turmeric
Salon
To some, turmeric is a buzzy New Age ingredient. To me, it represented so much more — medicine, faith and home.
Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta
Literary Hub
Love is obstinate—more than patient or kind. That fact more than anything is what I learned from the writer Ved Mehta.
The Madness of King Trump: On Being Unfit to Serve
Literary Hub
Chaya Bhuvaneswar Rereads King Lear… and the 25th Amendment.
NY Times Guest Essay
The New York Times
As a Doctor, I’ve Worked Tirelessly Through the Pandemic. That Hasn’t Stopped the Hate.
The Glenohumeral Joint
Jellyfish Review
“Light dawns gradually over the whole,” Aristo said. I knew what he meant.
Neela: Bhopal, 1984
Narrative Northeast
You have always trusted the forest. Here, danger could be seen and is known. The floor of the forest is layered with cool leaves that can be used to cover up faces.
Safe: A Meditation on Charlottesville and Beyond
Michigan Quarterly Review
i. It’s not that the objective facts stand there, smug and jeering, in isolation.
Why the Show ‘Billions’ is Worth Watching in Traumatic Times
3am Magazine
It all started, my hours of having ‘Billions’ run via Amazon streaming on my i-Phone, while I’m cooking or doing household tasks…
Shell Game
The Bangalore Review
My anxiety went through the roof once Adam left. The cage I had built to contain my fears collapsed – a cage formed from the routines of a medicine resident…
An Interview with Jamie Ford
Ploughshares
Jamie Ford is the Author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Interview with Danielle Trussoni on The Ancestor: A Novel
Michigan Quarterly Review
Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times bestselling author of the Angelology series, as well as of two acclaimed memoirs.
The Story Behind "Siren"
Compose
When I wrote this short-short story, I’d just written a series of stories about women in medicine, the theme of my story collection.
As Beauty Does
Longreads
Chaya Bhuvaneswar contemplates the powerful evolution of a woman’s beauty over time.
The Special Connection Between Kamala Harris’ Pearls & Her Indian Ethnicity
Bustle
Why is her South Asian identity always mentioned as an afterthought?
Collision of Histories: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Interview
Bomb
On writing mentally ill characters with nuance and how our identities shape the power relationships of our most intimate interactions.