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Ariel Saramandi
ARIEL SARAMANDI is an Anglo-Mauritian writer living in Mauritius. Her fiction and essays have been published by Granta, Los Angeles Review of Books and Brooklyn Rail, among other places. She is represented by Lisa Baker at Aitken Alexander Associates. She is working on her first novel.

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Getting Rid of It

Essay

September 2022

Ariel Saramandi

Essay

September 2022

As a schoolgirl I was told that abortion was illegal in Mauritius. No exceptions. There was no reason for me to believe otherwise. At...
The Inheritors

Essay

Issue No. 33

Ariel Saramandi

Essay

Issue No. 33

It is a story told in every Creole family I know in Mauritius. It is often narrated during a long drive: a window rolls...

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fiction

November 2012

Religion and the Movies

Aidan Cottrell Boyce

fiction

November 2012

When the Roman Empire ruled the world, you could make it work for you. The women, the hospitality. You...

Interview

March 2017

Interview with Lidija Dimkovska

Sara Nović

Interview

March 2017

I met Lidija Dimkovska at the Twin Cities Book Festival in October, fleetingly, and completely by accident. I had...

Interview

Issue No. 14

Interview with Hal Foster

Chris Reitz

Interview

Issue No. 14

HAL FOSTER’S WORK FOLLOWS in the tradition of the modernist art critic-historian, a public intellectual whose reflection on, and...

 

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