Articles by Nirica Srinivasan

  A young servant girl runs away one moonlit night into the unforgiving winter wilderness. She carries little with her—a pair of boots she stole from a dead man, a few meager supplies gathered from […]

  A sense of inevitability hangs heavy over Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, a fitting mood for a novel that takes its name and inspiration from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Birnam Wood is a novel about the future, […]