Geeta Kothari is a senior editor at The Kenyon Review. Her essay “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” is widely taught in universities and has been reprinted in several anthologies, including in Best American Essays. She is the editor of ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters, and the author of I Brake for Moose and Other Stories. Her most recent essay, “To the Man who Poisoned My Mother,” was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at Carlow University.
Nonfiction
Nov/Dec 2020
Stay
An excerpt from Crossing Black Water: My Mother’s Search for Home from Lahore to New York On the tarmac of an airport in New Delhi, in the shadow of a […]
Why We Chose It
Fall 2023
Why We Chose It: “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz
“Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz appears in the Fall 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review. Set on a dairy farm in the height of summer, “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz begins ominously, […]
Fiction
Autumn 2005
Missing Men
When Meriam returned to work the day after the bomb unit descended on the building, it was still there, the old converted warehouse by the river, strands of yellow police […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1999
If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
To belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with.MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Blood and Belonging I The first time my mother and I open a can of […]