Sunday, July 28, 2013

Literary Prizes, Literary Envy

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . “The book of my enemy has been remaindered,” Clive James once wrote, going on to end his ditt...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Writers And Alcohol

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This week's Sunday Guardian column Ted Hughes once wrote that the progress of any writer was marked by “those moments when he mana...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Stanzas For Vikram Seth

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Reflections on the recent Vikram Seth-Penguin Random House imbroglio -- in Pushkin sonnet...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Summoning The Muse

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Ah, the artist’s life. Behold the lonely garret, the pacing of the floor, the looking up a...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Curious Case Of Don Pablo Neruda

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . It’s been almost 40 years since Pablo Neruda, "the first great poet of the Spanish lang...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Novella As Suicide Note

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . One of the most moving things Virginia Woolf wrote was the suicide note to her husband Leona...
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Bookshelf As A City

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Consider the bookshelf. At first glance, just a receptacle for books, to make sure ...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Gandhi's Experiments With Reading

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This week's Sunday Guardian column On a winter’s day in 1904, four wagons, each pulled by 16 oxen, set off from Durban with a loa...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Flying The Literary Skies

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . According to a recent report in AdAge, an international airline is planning to “curate” a se...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Reading In A Time Of Distraction

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . This column isn’t about what I thought it would be about. Last week, I picked up a new ant...