Review

By Manjula KumarThe Huffington PostNovember 3rd, 2011 All my personal and professional life I have made an effort to reach…

By Manjula KumarGlobal India NewswireDecember 21, 2011 From my childhood to adulthood poetry has been an illumination and a guiding…

By Mark ScheelCommon Ground News ServiceJanuary 10, 2012 Praising Ambassador Akbar Ahmed’s new book of poetry, Suspended Somewhere Between: A…

By David KeplingerThe American BazaarDecember 20, 2012 At their best Ahmed’s poems realign the reader towards love, even forgiveness, through…

By Z.G. MuhammadGreater KashmirAugust 29th, 2013 A treat for all those who look for sublimity in poetry. I have read…

By Paul McCarthyThe Japan TimesJanuary 19th, 2013 WE, THE CHILDREN OF CATS, by Tomoyuki Hoshino, edited and translated by Brian…

Nihon Distractions: Readings in Translated Japanese LiteratureJuly 14, 2012 We, the Children of Cats collects together five short stories and three…

by Will EJunbungaku: Japanese Literary News and MoreSeptember 7, 2012 In “Paper Woman,” the first story of Hoshino’s debut collection…

By Gianni SimoneThe Japan Times OnlineOctober 21, 2012 In 2004, philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani declared, in his essay…

Pubishers WeeklyNovember 2012 Nearly every character in Hoshino’s uneven collection of short stories and novellas yearns to escape the boundaries…