Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities: Kiran Desai in Conversation with Homi Bhabha

Kiran Desai and Homi Bhabha come together for a conversation exploring fiction, theory and the contemporary condition. Desai reflects on her writing, including *The Inheritance of Loss* and *The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny*, while Bhabha brings his perspective as a leading thinker on postcolonial writing and criticism.

The discussion considers how literature can respond to global modernity and the forces shaping our world today.

Part of the Utopia Now! Conference, the event sits within a wider programme that brings writers and thinkers into dialogue across disciplines. The conference examines the possibility of utopian imagining in a time of social, political and environmental crisis, and this session offers a focused encounter with two major voices in contemporary literary culture.