Ghosh is known for his novels such as Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hunger Tide, River of smoke, Flood of Fire. Amitav Ghosh is also recipient of the Padma Shri(2007) and Sahitya Akademi Awards. Pradeep Kumar Sinha :He has become the longest serving bureaucrat in the post of ...
andSammler, while not a political treatise, does make a political argument. To reappraise it today is therefore necessarily to ask, in a way we do not ask of other novels, not just whether it holds up as a work of fiction (which it obviously does), but whether...
Given how much I like Shane’s novels, it’s probably to be expected that I enjoyed getting some insight into the novelist. And as most of his novels are centered around music/people obsessed with music, it’s fitting that this memoir focuses on songs. There are parts of this book that...
I hated it when the boss thought that telling the truth was a better policy than telling the clients what they wanted to hear or giving them some complete bull to sell food that really wasn’t that great. “It’s kind of late in the game to change the presentation,” I said. “Don...
My novels tend to have more action than this. If you want a fictional#BeautifulStory, trySpeak Its Name.If you want to know why this is still a big deal in the Church of England,The Real Worldis out now. It’s too early to be thinking about Christmas, I’d gripe. In a normal ...
This year samizdat has not been enriched by a single major prose work [1], as it was in past years by such works asSolzhenitsyn‘s novels, the memoirs ofEugenia Ginzburg, collections of stories byShalamov, and novels byLydia Chukovskaya,Vladimir Maximovand others. ...
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Classic crime novels are gaining a new and younger audience. When you’ve run through the usual suspects like Sayers, Doyle, Chesterton, or Marsh, who do you turn to next or do you re-read them once more? How about tracking down some oft’ forgotten male writers. Last time I wrote abo...
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