Zadie Smith has stated on various occasions that she considers herself to belong to the arena of obsessively local writers, inhabited by authors such as […]
Zadie Smith’s NW : A swan of a novel
Category: Literature
To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves
The waves showed that uneasiness, like something alive, restive, expecting the whip, of waves before a storm. – Jacob’s Room Where does one start when […]
An ode to my hero Julian Barnes, a literary giant
There are times when we feel like everything around us has shattered and there is simply nothing to hold on to. In my own escapades […]
If on a winter’s night a traveller you knock on Neil Gaiman’s door
Winter is coming, or so they say. Well, I guess that they are right. It is really cold outside these days. Yet somehow I […]
You haven’t been Burnsided yet? Review of The Dumb House
Reading The Dumb House, a novel written by the Scottish author John Burnside, is a Schrödinger’s cat situation: two mutually exclusive interpretations sit together without […]
The big world in The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is a novel written by the Indian author Arundhati Roy. It remains her only novel and is a stunning […]
The Yellow Wallpaper and the story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Being a frequent visitor of street booksellers near my faculty, Great Short Stories by American Women edited by Candace Ward immediately caught […]