Ravi Mangla

Apr 30, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ravi Mangla

Fiction In Ravi Mangla’s “Arcadia,” a retro video game seller goes in search of a game rumored to be a CIA psyops experiment. What he discovers—through a surrealist turn in the narration—is the depths of his own grief. * If you wanted to drop by the storefront, you wouldn’t find it. It wasn’t that kind of business.

Apr 9, 2024 | full-stop.net | Ravi Mangla |Peter Høeg

“I want a writer, [Varvara had] told my editor. I want someone who knows how to lie without being exposed.” That is how Pelle—our hapless, cash-strapped narrator—is thrust headlong into the life of aging socialite Varvara Eng and her lover Knud. In Simon Fruelund’s darkly comic novel The World and Varvara, information swirls and churns around Pelle, who has been tasked with ghostwriting Varvara’s memoir ahead of her eightieth birthday.