Claire Chambers
Amitav Ghosh’s latest work, a nonfiction book titled Smoke and Ashes, was published in India this July. Being in New Delhi at the
Published 27 Aug, 2023 08:53am
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s debut novel, The Centre, takes readers into a cutthroat world of language, translation ...
Published 25 Jun, 2023 05:15am
The Uighurs — Turkic Muslims of China’s Xinjiang province, also known as East Turkestan — suffer from a covert but aggressive..
Published 22 Apr, 2023 07:14am
In South Asia, where women are often subjected to a lot of pressure, climate change is also an urgent problem....
Published 19 Feb, 2023 08:28am
The causal link between environmental damage and pandemics during the Anthropocene is a recurring topic in books...
Updated 19 Feb, 2023 08:26am
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel Best of Friends begins as a love letter to Karachi, that city by the sea which the writer spent so much
Published 16 Oct, 2022 08:17am
One of the finest facets of Mohsin Hamid’s body of fiction is its exuberant play with form. This experimentation ...
Published 14 Aug, 2022 05:12am
I’m writing a book about literature, Covid, race and colonialism. During my research, I was deeply moved by Roopa...
Updated 13 Jun, 2022 12:14pm
During a holiday from the school I was teaching at in mid-1990s Peshawar, I was fortunate to spend a few days in...
Published 24 Apr, 2022 07:08am
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a colonial subject from the small Caribbean island of Martinique, then a...
Published 06 Mar, 2022 07:01am
In a thoughtful article in The Guardian about burnout amid Covid-19, Christine Berry wrote: “The pandemic isn’t...
Published 16 Jan, 2022 06:59am
Regular readers will know I’ve been thinking about pandemic literature since Covid-19 went global in early 2020. A...
Published 28 Nov, 2021 07:08am
Sally Rooney is everywhere just now because her eagerly-awaited third novel came out on September 7. In Beautiful...
Published 10 Oct, 2021 06:36am
I write this from self-isolation. Our elder son has Covid, luckily a mild case. We’re not going near him and wear...
Updated 22 Aug, 2021 03:05pm
Unlike his Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity — which I reviewed with pleasure and admiration ...
Published 04 Jul, 2021 06:28am
I’m excited to live in a world where a new Moni Mohsin book is out, alliteratively titled The Impeccable Integrity...
Published 16 May, 2021 05:45am
The world has been struggling under travel bans, lockdowns and limits on freedom for the last year because of the...
Published 28 Mar, 2021 06:28am
Ebola is a viral infection which causes haemorrhagic fever. Though rare, it has been devastating in west, central ...
Updated 07 Feb, 2021 05:43pm
What is the equivalent of public poetry — verse written at white heat after a momentous event — in literary...
Published 20 Dec, 2020 06:59am
Over four months into 2020’s second half, a quartet of women writers of colour — Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, ...
Published 01 Nov, 2020 06:59am
