Based loosely on the disastrous voyage of the whaling ship Essex, Jamrach’s Menagerie explores the claustrophobia and the madness of a protracted sea trip.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:00 IST
In his latest thriller-adventure, William Gibson, the doyen of cyberpunk whose early work inspired The Matrix trilogy, explores the retailing of brands and identities in a surreal world of digital media and commodities.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, September 4, 2011 8:00 IST
Robert Wright’s account of how all religions, at some point in their history, begin to justify large-scale violence suggests the political
necessity of religion and its usefulness for imperial conquest.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:00 IST
A perfectly mild-mannered history teacher, Samuel Szajkowski, walks into his school assembly and opens fire, killing two students and a fellow-teacher.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, May 29, 2011 3:46 IST
Emma Donoghue’s novel about the brutal incarceration of a mother and child — one of the early Booker favourites this year — is a brilliant, claustrophobic thriller.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, December 26, 2010 22:38 IST
David Mitchell’s new novel, one of the favourites to bag the 2010 Booker, is eminently readable for the virtuoso prose.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, August 29, 2010 1:17 IST
Warning: this is not an easy read. Carey deliberately complicates the plot with back-and-forth movement, set-pieces of description that seem straight out of Victorian fiction, and some singularly dazzling writing.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, July 4, 2010 0:35 IST
In seeking a new form and language appropriate for presenting unspeakable horrors such as the Holocaust or the Rwanda genocide, Yann Martel’s latest novel poses an interesting question: Can animal massacres be compared to the Holocaust?
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:14 IST
Celebrated children’s writer Philip Pullman’s retelling of the story of Jesus is a parable that reveals how a messiah needs a story-teller as much as people need stories.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, May 9, 2010 0:45 IST
Rural India continues to fascinate, apparently. Radhika Jha’s new novel, set in the hinterlands adjacent to Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, is about technology and transformation, poverty and politics.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, March 28, 2010 0:52 IST
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