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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