vika mujumdar

dream juniper lineup ❤️ applications open November 1!!!!

Very excited to have a speculative flash piece out with Small Wonders today!

American Oil Encounter: On Jung Yun’s “O Beautiful” - Cleveland Review of Books Here the sense of abundance comes sharply into focus—there is something indulgent here, something obscene, almost, in its abundance. Gas, a greatly desired commodity, becomes waste, situating oil as a...

"The ability to read oil is central in how it might allow us to read anew larger social structures that make the United States and its hegemonic global influences."

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social on Jung Yun's "O Beautiful" and petrofiction today.

clereviewofbooks.com/o-beautiful-...

Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...

"Ernaux and Marie venture into a new form of documentation, of record keeping, of making real the ephemeral."
@vikamujumdar.bsky.social reviews THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, translated by Alison Strayer (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....

Poetic Conversations: What is within reach of language? On Jennifer Chang’s “An Authentic Life” A few winters ago, my first break of grad school, I read a book every day. I stopped keeping a list of books I wanted to read. Instead, I…

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social has contributed a wonderful lyric essay on Jennifer Chang's latest #poetry collection, "An Authentic Life." (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social 2024) Now live on @anmlymag.bsky.social Poetic Conversations column:
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Without the Poet, There Is Only War “The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”

New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.