Reviews and EssaysOn Leif Borthen's The Road To San Vicente
"In times of love and war", on Elina Hirvonen's When I Forgot
"Fiction goes back to the future", Since 9/11, novels speculating about doomsdays on the way have made a striking return
"A novelist who speaks through music", on the border-crossing soundtracks of Jean-Claude Izzo
On Manchan Magan's Manchan's Travels
"Indian Literature, not in English", on Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire
"A burnt out world", on Jean-Claude Izzo's Solea
"The beautiful sweeper", on Mazhar ul Islam's The Season of Love, Bitter Almonds and Delayed Rains
"In the wide world", on Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
"Prose Culture",
on Heather McGowan's Duchess of Nothing "The End to Mishra",
on Pankaj Mishra and his latest work, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World "Pedro Confronts the Ghosts of Franco",
on Bad Education and the cinema of Pedro Almodovar "The Media and the Message",
a review of Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall's True Lies "A view from Queens",
a review of Yongsoo Park's Las Cucarachas "Politics: Legacy of the Cold War",
a review of Mahmood Mamdani's Good Muslim, Bad Muslim "Kareem's got other skills", a
review of Imad Rahman's I Dream of Microwaves "From Buddha to Adam", on Hanif Kureishi's The Body "The Ganguli Bunch", a review of
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake "What's in a name?", on the
notion of collective identity and the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri
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