Book Reviews

My Mother’s Lovers My Mother’s Lovers is the story of Alex who reminisces about his glamorous multi-faceted mother and the adventurous life she lived in Africa. Kathleen, a tall white …

  The Road By Cormac Mc Carthy Mc Carthy’s new masterpiece is a road trip, albeit a scary and nightmarish one, by a father and his young son as they …

House of Meetings Martin Amis’s new novella is an audacious attempt to compress the past 60 years of Russian history with all its hidden squalor and unspoken dread through the …

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an incisive portrait of the transformation of a Princeton-educated Pakistani youth with a …

Book: The Solitude of Emperors Author: David Davidar Publisher: Penguin Price: 495 | Pages: 244 The Solitude of Emperors, David Davidar’s second novel, is an ambitious essay at delineating the daemons …

Asra Q. Nomani’s Standing Alone in Mecca is at once compelling and predictable, clichéd and refreshing. Its moments of startling frankness and honesty prevent it from descending into another exercise …

Book: ‘Words, Words, Words – Adventures in Diplomacy’ Author: T.P. Sreenivasan Publisher: Pearson Longman Price: Rs.600. These days, when the Indian government is in the midst of exacting negotiations with …

The Argumentative Indian Text: Amartya Sen Publisher: Gardners Books The Argumentative Indian is no not an exotic creature or an invention of Amartya Sen; turn left, right or centre – …

Life imitates art sometimes. Vikas Swarup is a diplomat and not a gambler, but his debut novel Q and A, published last year by Random House, has scored big in …