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  • Published on March 17th, 2017in The Boston Globe
    Review of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West: Lessons in Humanity

    • Published on January 6th, 2017in The Boston Globe
      Review of Arvind Adiga’s Selection Day: Not Quite Cricket

      • Published on November 11th, 2016 in The Boston Globe
        Review of Javier Marías’ Thus Bad Begins: Kaleidoscopic tale of unhappy marriage and unsavory secrets from the bloody Franco era

        • Published on October 7th 2016 in The New York Times Book Review
          Review of Anuk Arudpragasam’s novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage: A Brave Debut Novel About the Sri Lankan Civil War

          • Published on February 1st, 2016 at Huffington Post Books.
            Review of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist Sunil Yapa’s Debut: A Fist to the Heart

            • Published on August 14th, 2014 at Huffington Post Books.
              Interview with Rita Zoey Chin. “Rita Zoey Chin: Running Toward the Storm”

                • Published on July 3rd, 2014 on AWP Writer.
                  Review of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then. “One Book to Rule Them All:Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘See Now Then‘
                • Published on June 22nd, 2014 on NPR.org for You Must Read This,
                  Review of Alessandro Barrico’s Silk. Silk Luxuriates In The Bittersweet Pain Of Love And Longing

                  • Published on March 25th, 2014 at Huffington Post Books
                    Interview with Jen Percy. “Courting Demons: Jen Percy’s Quest to Understand War and Exorcism.”

                    • Published on February 24, 2014 at Huffington Post Books
                      Interview with Roger Reeves. Talking with Roger Reeves: A Pawn a Poet, a King

                      • Published on September 4, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
                        Interview with Reginald Dwayne Betts. Reflections from a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow
                      • Published on July 11, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
                        Review of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny, Beautiful Things (Vintage, July 2012): Cheryl Strayed: Wild and Beautiful
                      • Published on July 10, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
                        Review of Natalie Serber’s Shout Her Lovely Name (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2012): On Forgiveness: Natalie Serber’s Shout Her Lovely Name
            • Published on May 24, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
              Interview with Ted Conover. Ted Conover: On Traveling and Being Free Behind Bars.
            • Published on March 15, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
              Interview with Chang-rae Lee. On War, Alienation and the Power of Healing.
            • Published on February 29th, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
              Review of Eugene Cross’ Fires of Our Choosing (Dzanc Books, March, 2012). Eugene Cross: Stories for Our Time.
            • Published on January 12, 2012 at Huffington Post Books
              Tomás Q. Morín: On Finding His Voice and Winning the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize
            • Published on August 31, 2011 at Huffington Post Books
              Review of Justin Torres’ We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 1, 2011)
              Justin Torres: Give Us More
            • Published on April 1, 2011 at Huffington Post Books
              New Author, Shehan Karunatilaka
              Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature & International Success
            • Colby Magazine – Summer, 2006
              Selling Girls Short

“Freeman never strays far from the neighborhood’s youngest inhabitants. They are wondrous to behold, with their intelligence, imagination and innocence. I don’t know that I’ve seen children more opulently depicted in fiction since Dickens.””— UCHRISTINA GARCIA, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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