Andrew Ollet teaches at the University of Chicago and is now working with Sarah Pierce Taylor on a new translation of Kavirajamarga, the 9th century Kannada treatise on poetics ...

Landlord portrays the struggle between inherited power and quiet aspiration in a village ruled by land and fear. It traces how one man’s belief in lawful change unsettles a long-standing social order.

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