The Brooklyn Rail

Dystopia, with Dancing

What makes a dystopia? Must evil be its driving force, or could there be a less sinister foundation, akin to a dysfunctional family gone awry?

In Conversation

DOCTORS DRIVING CABS
AMIN (A.X) AHMAD with Charlene Allen

I met Amin Ahmad at a fiction-writing workshop at The New School in New York City, where he quickly rose to stardom. Filled with nervous beginners, the class was hungry for guidance and validation.