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, April 30, 2012

The Long And Short Of Sentences

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This appeared in yesterday's The Sunday Guardian. Take a deep breath before you start to read Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis : the f...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Critics And Enemies Of Promise

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This appeared in today's The Sunday Guardian Critics can’t write good novels. This is as it should be, I suppose, given that the...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Why The Rushdie Memoir Should Have Been Called Laurence Fielding James

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The next instalment of my column for T he Sunday Guardian. Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the fatwa years, due to be published this ...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Putting The Jewish Into Jewish-American

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This is the first of my columns for New Delhi's The Sunday Guardian   When I first read Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer , I was str...

Big City Blues

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A condensed version of this appeared in the latest issue of Tehelka. MUMBAI NOIR Ed. Altaf Tyrewala Writers thrive on decay. Fictio...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

An Existential Laurel And Hardy

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express . DOGMA Lars Iyer In his recent “ literary manifesto after the end of literatu...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Mumbai: The Cities Within

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What's interesting about these five recent books set in Mumbai is that they bring us glimpses of the city, from the Thirties to the pre...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

If You Really Want To Hear About It

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This appeared in today's DNA . J.D. SALINGER: A LIFE RAISED HIGH Kenneth Slawenski In The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Shackled

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This appeared in yesterday's The Indian Express THE PRISONER OF PARADISE Romesh Gunesekera Naïve young men and women. A bespoil...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Posters For #flashreads

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Some rough-and-ready posters for use on February 14: e-mail, display, put up on your blog or print and wrap fish in them. For the initiati...
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