Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her short stories have most recently appeared in Air/Light, Alta, Midnight Breakfast, and The Massachusetts Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times’s Modern Love, Slate, Salon, and Catapult. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Secondhand Desire: On Sanjena Sathian’s “Gold Diggers”
Sanjena Sathian’s new novel is a sharp satire of second-generation Indian American strivers....
Bomb Under the Table: On Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”
Anita Felicelli reviews the new novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, "Klara and the Sun."...
The Border Between Magic and Annihilation: On Laura van den Berg’s “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears”
Anita Felicelli reviews “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,” the new short story collection from Laura van den Berg....
Strange Cosmic Entertainment: On Charlie Kaufman’s “Antkind”
Anita Felicelli observes “Antkind,” the debut novel from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman....
The Story Is Her Ancestors: On Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “That Hair”
Anita Felicelli reviews “That Hair,” the recently released novel from Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida....
Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s “Gingerbread”
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails....
Satire and Subversion in Ishmael Reed’s “Conjugating Hindi”
Anita Felicelli on the firebrand Ishmael Reed’s latest novel, “Conjugating Hindi,” which is out now from Dalkey Archive Press....
Missed Connections: Hanne Ørstavik’s “Love”
Despite its brevity, Hanne Ørstavik's "Love," effectively rendered into English by Martin Aitken, demands and deserves total concentration....
Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Dreams in “Future Home of the Living God”
Anita Felicelli finds flaw and favor in Louise Erdrich’s dystopian novel “Future Home of the Living God.”...
The Intellectual Roots of the Radical Right
Anita Felicelli on Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."...
Outside Language and Power: The Mastery of Arundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”
Anita Felicelli on Arundhati Roy's long-awaited second novel....
“The Cauliflower”: Deconstruction of a Hindu Mystic’s Spiritual Legacy
Anita Felicelli on Nicola Barker's "The Cauliflower"....
A Sense of a Real Home
"The Year of the Runaways" and "The Association of Small Bombs" both address political violence in North India and lives of Punjabis abroad....
The Memories of Elephants
Violence plays an essential, defining role in novelist Tania James’s stunning second novel, The Tusk That Did the Damage. The novel shines a necessary light on the challenges faced when living alongside the wild....
To Live Ideologically Is to Narrow Your Life
An Interview with Xiaolu Guo...
“The Moment” in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland”
The history at the beginning of The Lowland is not a flaw, it is centrally important to the novel....
“The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri: Two Reviews
Two review of Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland."...
