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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.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Novels, Screens And Reality

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This fortnight's Sunday Guardian column . FreeDigitalPhotos.Net In an interview some years ago, Zadie Smith remarked that one ...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Meditation And Narration

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . In a blog post for the New York Review of Books last week, Tim Parks voiced a concern that ma...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Father, Sons And Everything In Between

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My Sunday Guardian column . “Fathers start as gods and end as myths and in between whatever human form they take can be calamitous for ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Maps Of Nepal

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . Read some of the more acclaimed short story collections of recent times, and you’d be tempted...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Love (And Murder) In Tokyo

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . I’d heard much about Keigo Higashino’s murder mystery, The Devotion of Suspect X , but I read...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Why 2013 Will Be The Year Of The Woman Writer

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This week's Sunday Guardian column . There are still some months to go before the end of the year, but one thing seems certain: wh...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Margaret Atwood's Brave New World

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This appeared in today's The Indian Express Browse through Flipboard, the tablet and mobile-based social media aggregator, and you’...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Best In The English-speaking World

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Announcing the rule change that would make American novelists, among others, eligible for the Man ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Agatha Christie In Syria

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . “In a few weeks’ time, we are starting for Syria!” That may seem like the optimistic assertion of ...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Still In Search Of Salinger

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Today's Sunday Guardian column . Even if you aren’t a Salinger fan, you’ve probably heard the news that more of his books are li...
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