This feeling of intimacy between author and reader is one of the defining characteristics of Salinger’s work.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:00 IST
Bookstores will stock seasonal vegetables, Chetan Bhagat will finally be translated into English, and literary festivals will have readings from telephone directories, predicts bibliophile Sanjay Sipahimalani
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, January 1, 2012 11:00 IST
Often, it’s an author’s signature tone of voice that’s the most effective part of his or her work.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:00 IST
An 11-year-old from Ghana moves with his mother and sister into one of London’s poorer, violence-prone neighbourhoods.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:00 IST
What if an acquaintance comes to dinner and refuses to leave? That’s the premise of her new novel, There But For The.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, September 18, 2011 13:00 IST
As one of Ghosh’s Cantonese characters would have said, this is a book with plenty-big cargo-la.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, June 26, 2011 8:00 IST
In this remarkable debut novel, a young German-Nigerian psychiatrist walks around New York, musing on the city and its people. But all his observations are held together by an incisive, meditating consciousness whose ramblings it is a pleasure to follow.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, May 15, 2011 3:46 IST
As ought to be clear by now, Invitation isn’t short of colour and incident. Fazli’s prose is stylishly confident, detailing actions and interactions with verve, be it an opium-soaked qawwali performance or the animated conversations at the shack of Ghulam Hussain.
Section: Lifestyle | Saturday, February 19, 2011 22:48 IST
There are two ways to read Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator. The first, as a social document throwing light on the tribulations of those in Kashmir from the early 1990s; and the second, as a novel based on the same material.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:24 IST
Salman Rushdie’s 1990 fable for children, Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, struck an immediate chord because of the circumstances of its writing and publication.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, December 5, 2010 2:00 IST
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