Review by Selma Carvalho

Issue no 19

Jose Lourenco too, I consider to be a regional writer. His stories, a collection of which materialised late 2020, titled The Fever and Other Stories, rarely, if ever explore characters outside of Goa. Nor do his characters bare their interiority, instead they emerge with an intense geographical specificity through a unique hybridity of reportage, observation, and advocacy for a certain way of life which, much like Baker’s peregrine, is also on the brink of extinction.