Karan Mahajan

Biography

Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning (HarperCollins, 2008) and The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s “10 Best Books of 2016.” In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. He is an associate professor in the Literary Arts Department at Brown University. His third novel, The Complex (2026), is forthcoming.

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FICTION / Summer 2018

Wrong Yoga

By Karan Mahajan ,  Illustration by Sergio García Sánchez

Of all the types of yoga practiced in the US today—Hatha yoga, Ashtanga yoga,Vinyasa yoga, Bikram yoga—the one that I enjoy most happens to be the one that I invented. I like to call this type of yoga “wrong yoga.”