Release Date: 2025
Self-Portraits Ex Machina
Self-Portraits Ex Machina features poems that explore contemporary American life, immigrant family folklore and mistranslations; racism, misogyny, model minority myths and being othered. The poems are housed in various forms and experiential detail to create narratives that address love and loss, family history, tragedy and success, old wounds gleaned from memory’s lens – and the joy of everyday life chores, such as cooking. Time stops for a while as the poems come alive and the stories unfold.
Self-Portraits Ex Machina is a searing collection that dispenses thunder and lightning through its poems. Divine intervention is replaced by human resilience, strength, ingenuity and vulnerability. Through innovative haibuns, contrapuntal poems and other experimental forms, Devi Laskar’s work encompasses everything from burning crosses and Klan rallies to powerful meditations on motherhood, marriage, and food
that carry the weight of cultural memory."
– Shikha Malaviya,
Author of Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems
Release Date: April 14th 2025
Midnight, At The War
Inspired by journalists Christiane Amanpour and Sylvia Poggioli, Midnight, at the War is a novel about a reporter chasing the biggest story of her career as she contends with a tense newsroom, a dangerous global conflict, and all the problems she’s running away from at home, by the acclaimed novelist that Megha Majumdar calls “a gem of a writer.”
In Midnight at the War, Laskar masterfully entwines the intimate and the political, crafting a story that surges with urgency and depth. It’s a narrative you don’t simply read—you surrender to it, pulled under by prose so luminous and a story so commanding that resistance is impossible.​
Nina Schuyler,
Author of In This Ravishing World & Afterword
Books by Devi S. Laskar
