criticism
an ideal employee: on akil kumarasamy’s debut novel, ‘meet us by the roaring sea’ (roadmap)
book review: jennifer egan’s ‘the candy house’ and vauhini vara’s ‘the immortal king rao’ (vulture)
the difficult genius of ruth prawer jhabvala (theatlantic.com)
a mother’s death sends a family into uncharted waters (the village voice)
democracy won’t die (not if malka older has her way) (the village voice)
salman rushdie's quichotte (vogue india)
"i am manjula!" on shakespeare wallah (the village voice)
zadie smith’s return (huffington magazine)
in never have i ever, the real love story is between a mother and daughter (vulture)
on pen15, everyone is (refreshingly) a bully (vulture)
profiles / q&a
celine song is the one that got away (new york magazine)
now that he has your attention…: nana kwame adjei-brenyah (new york magazine) (featured in new york’s ‘one big story’ newsletter)
‘imagine a black woman just wanting something’: a sit-down with ruth negga (new york magazine)
hasan minhaj invites you to take off your shoes (theatlantic.com)
salman rushdie: an american immigrant in the age of trump (the village voice)
all the brown girls on tv (theatlantic.com)
the mystery of m. night shyamalan (gq.com)
treya lam and the shape of a person (the village voice)
leo fitzpatrick: the kid stayed in the picture (the village voice)
what makes art "american"? on the new whitney biennial (the village voice)
two sakes and a loaf of challah with the artist chloe wise (vice magazine)
lilly singh’s week, a q&a (nytimes)
essays
the all-in-one charm of shah rukh khan (vulture)
the immortal myth of the unicorn (t magazine)
i quit the act of quitting (nyt)
why everyone should sleep alone (theatlantic.com)
word: jugaad (believer magazine)
indian matchmaking is just telling it like it is (vulture)
all about my mother (TOPIC)
the asian food fixation (new york magazine)
the undefinable something of irrfan khan (vulture)
in defense of cousins who fall in love, on ramy and irl (vulture)
parenticide (believer magazine; scroll to the last entry)
thanksgiving turkey and raita in texas (nyt)
on believing women, and mia (vulture)
an elegy for dallas strip mall restaurants (food & wine) (longform best of 2017) (notable: best american food writing 2018)
anthony bourdain was the best white man (vulture)
why i hate gurus (vulture)
the legacy of both mindys on 'the mindy project' (vulture)
what the simpsons doesn’t get about its apu problem (the village voice)
indian parents were made for t.v. (vulture)
solidarity at a mostly white school (fusion)
how i came to love linkedin (select all)
an ode to the sari (man repeller)
goodbye marfa, texas (huffpost)
humor / illustrations
white guilt: the webmd profile (shouts and murmurs at newyorker.com)
lifetime movie cartoons: the wives he forgot (jezebel; one of a series of ten strips)
master of none recaps: on mon, the kids are all right but the parents are better (vulture; second of a series of ten illustrated recaps)
fiction/film/audio
hibernation (10 episode podcast co-produced by spoke media and headspace studios)
the dancer ascends the stage (fiction, catapult)
forward! (a short film)
love in a no-contact world (an audio essay for prism)
reported analysis
three bodies in texas (believer magazine) (featured in the sunday longread)
telling a different story about africa (newyorker.com)
trump’s katrina moment (theatlantic.com)
the melancholia postulate (theatlantic.com)
is it time to retire apu? (huffpost) (la press club 2015 first place winner: best industry feature)
how the instant pot became a new immigrant classic (huffpost)
why we're still so bad at talking about colorism (vulture) (featured in the atlantic’s this week in pop culture writing)
a brief history of 'khan' (vulture)
what makes art american? (village voice)
the kids are all-caps (huffpost)
no punctuation is funnier (huffpost)