Review essay in World Literature Today

My review essay of Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s hybrid memoir, Comb (Sable Books, 2020), is out on World Literature Today. In this piece (which took a year to compose!), I marvel at and respond to Zeest Hashmi’s meditations on language, history, and intricacy—the weave of connection, and the task of untangling. Read the review here:

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/intricate-and-fathomless-shadab-zeest-hashmis-comb-adeeba-shahid-talukder