Unnikrishnan, Deepak. Temporary People. Brooklyn: Restless Books, 2017.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. Coffee Stains in a Camel’s Teacup. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2004.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. "Cat." Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture. Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2019.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Pravasis.” Album: More Arriving, collaboration with Sarathy Korwar. July 2019, The Leaf Label, UK.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. "Foreword." Balkrishna Doshi – Mother Tongue, photography exhibit by Danko Stjepanović, Oris House of Architecture, June 18, 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Euology 1-4”, “Whaat is Plan”, “Bullet Points About Pady Sopnams”, “Gulf Return.” Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play. The National Pavilion of the UAE, Venice Biennale, 2017.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “I Come to Your Country, Name Me.” Group Show: 1497, curated by Lantian Xie. Green Art Gallery, January 18, 2016, Dubai.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “When Men Glow in Sharjah.” Building Sharjah, eds. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Todd Reisz. Birkhäuser / De Gruyter, 2021.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Untitled. Unreliable, Unconfirmed.” Cabinet of Imaginary Laws, eds. Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis. Routledge, 2021.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Pravasis”, “Pravasis?” & “Nalinakshi.” The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns, ed. Dohra Ahmad. New York: Penguin Classics, 2019.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Birds.” Berlin Quarterly. Berlin: June 2017.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Sarama.” The Apex Book of World Speculative Fiction: Volume 4, ed. Mahvesh Murad. Lexington, KY: Apex Books, 2015.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Gulf Return.” The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2015, ed. Roxane Gay. June 11, 2015.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Gulf Return” & “Water.” Guernica Magazine. November 2014.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. "The classroom and the ear: How the pandemic forced a writer to come out about his hearing disorder." Scroll.in. September 24, 2020.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “The hidden cost of migrant labor.” Foreign Affairs. February 7, 2020.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Abu Dhabi: the city where citizenship is not an option.” The Guardian. December 13, 2017.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “An Arabikatha.” THE STATE Volume IV: Dubai. Dubai: April 2013.
Unnikrishnan, Deepak. “Gulf Return.” Himal Southasian, Vol. 23. Kathmandu: December 2010.
