Megha Majumdar on the Joy of Asking Questions

Like a Karan Johar film, Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ is destined for popularity. But its MFA gloss makes exotic what was once your own

A critical review of Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief, examining its climate-change dystopia, cinematic prose, moral ambition and Oprah-backed popularity—brilliantly crafted yet arguably too clever by half.

Megha Majumdar on the Joy of Asking Questions

First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in. In t…