Antiblurbs

You can buy them. You can borrow them. You can download them. But are all those books out there really worth your while? Herewith some brief assessments.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Rat Race

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This appeared in yesterday's DNA . BANDICOOTS IN THE MOONLIGHT Avijit Ghosh It was the 18 th century philosopher Joseph Pri...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Enter Ghost

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This is from the latest issue of Tehelka INDIGNATION Philip Roth The central characters of Everyman and Exit Ghost , Philip Roth...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Mapping Desire

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This is from today's Hindustan Times . AN ATLAS OF IMPOSSIBLE LONGING Anuradha Roy Is writing a form of archaeology? The metap...
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Burton's Nights

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This is from today's DNA . THE COLLECTOR OF WORLDS Iliya Troyanov The Victorian era’s reputation for conservatism and Puritani...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Final Chapters

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This is from today's Hindustan Times . Do also see McSweeney's for a "thread of memories" by those who knew, met and stu...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

Black Is Back

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THE LEMUR Benjamin Black By their metaphors ye shall know them. Try these on for size: a policeman has a face like “an El Greco ma...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Spaced Out

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Express CLEARING A SPACE Amit Chaudhuri “The literary essay,” wrote American essayi...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A Voice From Malaysia

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An edited e-mail interview with Preeta Samarasan , author of Evening Is The Whole Day , portions of which appear in a piece in the latest ...

Hindi Lessons

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This is from the latest issue of TimeOut Mumbai T'TA PROFESSOR Manohar Shyam Joshi Years ago, the venerable Reader’s Digest...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Marathon Man

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This appeared in today's Hindustan Times . WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING Haruki Murakami He used to own a jazz b...
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