Amitava Kumar’s latest book is seemingly about the craft of writing, but it rises above prescriptive lessons, emphasising instead its personal and literary dimensions,...
John Berger’s sensibility was shaped by the aesthetic ideas and political struggles of his time. That’s the thesis of a recent literary biography by...
Bhutan’s national language, Dzongkha, was codified only recently. As a result, more Bhutanese are comfortable reading and writing English than are conversant with Dzongkha,...
European art, Indian art. The two terms are equally expansive, and equally meaningless. How many centuries of work, what magnitudes of difference do we...
Essayism
By Brian Dillon
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pages: 152
Price: Rs 948
The metaphysical novel, the postcolonial novel, the historical novel, the society novel, the comic novel, the anti-novel…...
