Author: Vartika Rastogi

Vartika Rastogi is an Indian writer currently based in London. Her work has previously appeared in The Alipore Post and The Cardiff Review, and her reading desk is in perpetual overflow. Follow Vartika on Instagram @punkrockandreticence and on Goodreads @vartikarastogi

In conversation with author Ashley Nelson Levy: ‘I wanted to write about the grief that comes with not feeling at home in your body and how your body can dictate the shape of your home.’

  Vartika Rastogi

Vartika Rastogi talks to acclaimed author Ashley Nelson Levy about her debut novel Immediate Family, the literary tropes and cultural narratives around adoption, motherhood, the body and female desire since the overturning of Roe v Wade.

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A hunger to be free: James Hannaham’s Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

  Vartika Rastogi

Hilarious, heartbreaking and unapologetically original, James Hannaham’s Joyce-inspired odyssey of a novel centres trans heroine Carlotta Mercedes and her experience of ‘re-entering society’ after 22 years of unjust incarceration.

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Becoming and Belonging in Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know

  Vartika Rastogi

Claudia Durastanti’s luminous novel, Strangers I Know, traverses multiple identities, migrations and languages, and considers how ‘art can free an individual from difference, and difference from solitude’, writes Vartika Rastogi.

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