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.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Windowpane Or Stained Glass?

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George Orwell wrote that good prose ought to be like a window pane. But those such as Nabokov, Banville and Updike prefer stained glass. The...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Family Matters

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This appeared in today's DNA . FREEDOM Jonathan Franzen In an essay for Harper’s magazine in 1996, Jonathan Franzen rued the con...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Books On Holiday

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What books do you take with you when travelling? My next Yahoo India column .
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Tusker Tale

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This appeared in last Saturday's The Indian Express THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY Jose Saramago In the tale of the blind men and the...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

For Laughter, Against Forgetting

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This appeared in last Sunday's edition of New Delhi's The Sunday Guardian   ENCOUNTER: ESSAYS Milan Kundera Two years ago, a ...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Psst. Sar! You Are Wanting Book To Read?

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Confessions of an Indian book pirate: the next instalment of my Yahoo India column .
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Pak Pack

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express GRANTA 112: PAKISTAN Taken as a whole,  Granta ’s Pakistan-themed issue has  a packaged...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Novels At Work

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My Yahoo India column on fiction that deals with, in Alain de Botton's words, "the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty, and horror o...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Gentle Madness

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This appeared in Sunday's DNA . THE GROANING SHELF Pradeep Sebastian There are debates aplenty over the talents of authors, the s...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Reading America

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This appeared in today's DNA . DRIVING HOME Jonathan Raban Though Jonathan Raban had been writing literary criticism and travelog...
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