Elizabeth Kadetsky

Elizabeth Kadetsky is the author of four books, most recently The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction. A three-time Fulbright scholar in India, she is a professor of creative writing at Penn State University and a 2025 NEH Public Scholars fellow. Her article on looted Indian statuary, “The Goddess Complex,” appeared in our Spring 2023 issue.

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | Monday March 3, 2025

The Goddess Complex

A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | Thursday March 2, 2023

Tiger Mom

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | Monday March 3, 2025

The Goddess Complex

By Elizabeth Kadetsky | Thursday March 2, 2023

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