How do you respond to such kindness? 🙈 And everybody read Railsong please!

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 3w ago

I should note Amritesh has excellent taste. When he appeared on a recent Critical Friends episode, he spoke admiringly of Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong. Gang, I read it and he’s right - beautifully written, fully empathetic, frequently funny, always surprising. A real novel. Listen to Amritesh!

Dare I say it myself, it's imo one of the best pieces I've written (not to mention one of the best Indian shows I've watched). Please read!

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 3w ago

New review at SH of Smita Singh's horror series Khauf. @amritesh.bsky.social sees in it a kind of testament of the possessive gaze: "Amid demands for revenge justice, everyday rape culture goes unexamined. After all, examining the culture would mean examining ourselves."

The irony of a book (my current read) on the pitfalls of AI being written with the help of AI (that too, from my favourite Indian pub). 😭😭 The tragedy of a good book is that it haunts all the "potentially" good books—looking at you, @vauhinivara.bsky.social 's Searches—a tsk-tsking poltergeist.

I am always short on words when talking of things I cherish. The Tale of Princess Kaguya is one of those that makes me wish I wasn't; some words ANYHOO because, high time!

Unwinnable@unwinnable.com · last mo.

Where is the year going? Get our latest nuggets of microcriticism in the September 2026 issue of Exploits, including writing on The Tale of Princess Kaguya and The Odyssey. Buy: buff.ly/AzNU0so Subscribe: buff.ly/LK0CTtF Read @saraclemens.com's essay on Lestat's live rock show: buff.ly/l51eY9i

Two more reviews for this week: @amritesh.bsky.social on @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Volume 5 ("to witness these stories is to dream without apology"). @subham6.bsky.social on Olivie Blake's Gifted & Talented, from @tordotcom.bsky.social ("Blake offers no easy answers, and that’s the point").

15 September 2025

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@strangehorizons.bsky.social describes Issue V as a chaotic, genre-defying constellation of stories that resists categorisation and models a form of narrative rebellion 🧵 Read the latest review by @amritesh.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Your last review of the SH week, it is here! @amritesh.bsky.social on Vardhini Amin's The Forestborns. "Amin brings [a] global tradition of anthropomorphic storytelling to Indian soil, language, and spirit with a gentle, fable-like charm."

The Forestborns by Vardhini Amin

What if trees held thoughts like roots?

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