Mithila Review
05 · The Archive

Reviews

Books, film, and culture, read through a speculative lens.

25 works 2016–2022 Open access
25 works

Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology — January–March 2017

Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome Aditya Singh Issue 7 The East is a Setting: Issues of Place, Theme, and Tone in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Beyond Gautam Bhatia Issue 7 Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Isha Karki Issue 7

Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special — May 2017

Her Broken Shadow: How I Made a Sci-Fi Feature Film in East Africa Dilman Dila Issue 8 Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir Ajapa Sharma Issue 8 The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye Salik Shah Issue 8

Issue 9 · New Cartographies — September 2017

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler Alison Akiko McBain Issue 9 Binti: Home Isha Karki Issue 9 Borne Aditya Singh Issue 9 Under the Radar: Sultana’s Dream Mahvesh Murad Issue 9 “To hold contradictions in balance...”: Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave Gautam Bhatia Issue 9

Issue 10 · Tenth Milestone Edition — September 2018

The Carpet Makers Jerry Jose Issue 10 All the Fabulous Beasts Isha Karki Issue 10

Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents — April 2019

Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse Gautam Bhatia Issue 12 Gideon the Ninth Chaitanya Murali Issue 12

Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements — September 2019

“All true knowing is mutual...”: Notes on Vandana Singh’s Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories Ishita Singh Issue 13 Avatar: An English-Italian Anthology of Contemporary Science Fiction from India Chaitanya Murali Issue 13 A Delicate Magic: Iona Datt Sharma’s Not For Use in Navigation Gautam Bhatia Issue 13

Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky — June 2020

The Princess and the Frog: A Review of Gorel and the Pot Bellied God Anthony Perconti Issue 14 Eclectic Modern Folktales: 2020: An Anthology, edited Prashanth Gopalan Issue 14

Issue 15 · Re-Emergence — December 2020

The Wall of the Worlds Sami Ahmad Khan Issue 15 The monstrous invading the ordinary: Reading The Best of Richard Matheson in a time of Coronavirus Prashanth Gopalan Issue 15 Review: Yudhanjaya Wijeratne's The Salvage Crew Umang Poddar Issue 15 Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction Salik Shah & Rimi B. Chatterjee Issue 15

Issue 16 · Planet Democracy — July 2022

Sami Ahmad Khan’s Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction Ankit Prasad Issue 16