Salik Shah

Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue

The Quest for Dignity and Justice in Speculative Fiction Essays March 2016 TV Series: Da Vinci’s Demons (2013-2015) Essays March 2016 Kelly Robson: "'Jessica Churchill’ was an attempt to understand national tragedies" Interviews March 2016

Issue 2 · Subcontinental Speculations

A Plan to Survive Year Zero Essays April 2016 Arkady Martine: "What I am doing when I write – in part – is trying to formulate a poetics of exile." Interviews April 2016 Kij Johnson: "I have learned to walk away from failing stories instead of flailing at them." Interviews April 2016

Issue 3 · Futures Across Borders

The Shortest Editorial Ever! Essays May 2016

Issue 4 · Monsoon Cosmologies

Turning the Lens to Asia Essays June 2016

Issue 5-6 · The Asian SF Double Issue

Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh Essays July/August 2016 Asian SF - Double Issue (July/August): Open to Submissions Through July 2016 Essays July/August 2016 Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016) Essays July/August 2016 Dreams & Delusions Essays July/August 2016 Mithila Review to be a Quarterly with Payment! Essays July/August 2016 Usman T. Malik: "Fantastika can freshen up contemporary South Asian literature" Interviews July/August 2016 Ken Liu: "History is both the most human of sciences and the most scientific of stories" Interviews July/August 2016 Indra Das: "The artist’s job is to provide the seed for an infinite tree of branching meanings, all flowering inside the hive mind of a collective human audience." Interviews July/August 2016 Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion Interviews July/August 2016 Interview: Lavie Tidhar Interviews July/August 2016 Interview: Mary Anne Mohanraj Interviews July/August 2016 Interview: Glen Hirshberg Interviews July/August 2016 Interview: Mark James Russell Interviews July/August 2016

Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology

A Binge-Reader’s Companion to Three-Body Trilogy Essays January–March 2017 Spectacular Worlds in Translation Essays January–March 2017 Cixin Liu: Chinese Readers Care About the Whole Humanity Interviews January–March 2017 中国读者关心整个人类文明 Interviews January–March 2017

Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special

The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye Reviews May 2017

Issue 9 · New Cartographies

Cup of Tea Poetry September 2017

Issue 11 · Borderline Realities

Stories That Can Change the World, or The Mission Statement Essays December 2018

Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents

This Extraordinary Being Essays April 2019 "When power is unchecked, particularly in an atmosphere of dehumanization, the results can be horrific" Interviews April 2019 Lorenzo Latrofa & Massimiliano di Lauro on Animating the Story of Migration & Exile Interviews April 2019 May Chong on Managing the Scorching Mess of Social Media Interviews April 2019 "Upshot takes place soon after the end of the Guatemalan civil war..." — Drema Deòraich Interviews April 2019 Deborah L. Davitt on Writing "The Ghost Teas of Sakruajima" and Researching Folk Magic in the Sengoku Jidai Period in Japan Interviews April 2019 America Under Siege: Creating An Alternate History with Dean A Brink Interviews April 2019

Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements

A World Without Hospitals Essays September 2019 From scientific haikus to epic poems, Mary Soon Lee effortlessly navigates between genres, fiction and poetry Interviews September 2019 Discover the secret origins of Tarun K. Saint's Avatar and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Interviews September 2019

Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky

Life is Beautiful Essays June 2020

Issue 15 · Re-Emergence

Meet the New Mithila Review Team! Essays December 2020 Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction Reviews December 2020

Issue 16 · Planet Democracy

Planet Democracy: Call for Submissions for a Hopepunk Issue of Mithila Review Essays July 2022 Hopepunk: When Hope Meets Action Essays July 2022