Aditya Bahl

Aditya Bahl is a writer based in Los Angeles. He works as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UCLA.

Children looking at a mural of Antonio Gramsci, 1975.

The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci

Andy Merrifield’s Roses for Gramsci, a highly personal history of the Italian thinker and his work, examines his influence across generations.

Jun 3, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl

Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal

Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal Will Alexander’s Epics of the Surreal

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.” 

Jan 5, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl

The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude”

The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude” The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude”

Khal Thorabully’s epic poem “re-voices” the history of Indian indentured migration, and in the process imagines a new kind of transoceanic political solidarity.

Dec 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl

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