Sunday, August 25, 2013

Against Loose, Baggy Monsters

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . One of the books on my tottering unread pile is Shamsher Rahman Faruqi’s The Mirror of B...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Making Family Skeletons Dance

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Families have always furnished fodder for fiction. From Tolstoy to Austen to Franzen, novels ...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fiction To Frighten The Status Quo

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My Sunday Guardian column . One of the more credible stories of how the Egyptian capital got its name comes from the order of the 10th ...
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 ...