Sunday, February 24, 2013

Scott Fitzgerald's Man In Hollywood

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My Sunday Guardian column . For better or for worse, it’s a golden time for “adapted screenplays”, with more and more novels being tur...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

English As She Is Spoke

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My Sunday Guardian column . Textspeak. The word “anyways”. The Twitter hashtag “epic”. Those are among my pet peeves. It turns o...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Metaphors Be With You

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Today's Sunday Guardian column First, some random headlines from today’s papers: Slide in job generation. Smartphone war hots up....
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

My Apology

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . I apologise, I really do. I meant no harm, and it certainly wasn’t my intention to cause offence...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Philip Roth, Experimental Novelist

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My Sunday Guardian column . “I wake up in the morning, get a big glass of orange juice and read for an hour-and-a-half. I've never...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

A Writer's Silence, A Leader's Roar

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This week's Sunday Guardian   column . The ongoing civil war in Syria continues to claim more lives amidst opposing claims and shi...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Branches of Childhood

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This appeared in the latest TimeOut Delhi THE SKINNING TREE Srikumar Sen It’s not easy to write about the experience of childhood. ...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

1984 and 1948

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My Sunday Guardian column The new Penguin edition of George Orwell’s 1984 has a terrific cover that features the author’s name and ...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Alberto Manguel's Labyrinths

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My Sunday Guardian column . As a teenager in Buenos Aires, Alberto Manguel spent much time reading aloud to the by-then sightless Jorg...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Found In Translation: My Favourite Fiction of The Year

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My Sunday Guardian column . Most of the fiction I found noteworthy in 2012 was in translation. Here, there was all the inventiveness, ...