Reviews and Essays

On Leif Borthen's The Road To San Vicente
The Times Literary Supplement, February 29, 2008

"In times of love and war", on Elina Hirvonen's When I Forgot
The Times Literary Supplement, February 15, 2008

"Fiction goes back to the future", Since 9/11, novels speculating about doomsdays on the way have made a striking return
The Guardian, November 16, 2007

"A novelist who speaks through music", on the border-crossing soundtracks of Jean-Claude Izzo
The Guardian, September 27, 2007

On Manchan Magan's Manchan's Travels
The Times Literary Supplement, September 21, 2007

"Indian Literature, not in English", on Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire
The Guardian, August 14, 2007

"A burnt out world", on Jean-Claude Izzo's Solea
The Times Literary Supplement, July 12, 2007

"The beautiful sweeper", on Mazhar ul Islam's The Season of Love, Bitter Almonds and Delayed Rains
The Times Literary Supplement, December 15, 2006

"In the wide world", on Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
The Times Literary Supplement, September 22, 2006

"Prose Culture", on Heather McGowan's Duchess of Nothing
Brooklyn Rail, February 2006

"The End to Mishra", on Pankaj Mishra and his latest work, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
The Brooklyn Rail, February 2005

"Pedro Confronts the Ghosts of Franco", on Bad Education and the cinema of Pedro Almodovar
The Brooklyn Rail, January 2005

"The Media and the Message", a review of Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall's True Lies
The Brooklyn Rail, October 2004

"A view from Queens", a review of Yongsoo Park's Las Cucarachas
The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2004

"Politics: Legacy of the Cold War", a review of Mahmood Mamdani's Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2004

"Kareem's got other skills", a review of Imad Rahman's I Dream of Microwaves
The Brooklyn Rail, May 2004

"From Buddha to Adam", on Hanif Kureishi's The Body
Brooklyn Rail, March 2004 

"The Ganguli Bunch", a review of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
Brooklyn Rail, November 2003

"What's in a name?", on the notion of collective identity and the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri
Little Magazine; Volume IV, Issue 3

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