Future is — Rana Dasgupta, Solo (Interview)
March 26, 2012 No Comments
On tragic optimism and ethical creativity
Psychoanalyzing the city
March 18, 2012 No Comments
Writer and Commonwealth Prize winner Rana Dasgupta explains his fascination with Delhi and reads the future of the world’s cities
Speak, memory — Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter (Interview)
February 27, 2012 1 Comment
Madeleine Thien didn’t think she could write about the Khmer Rouge. Then she found a character to lead her through the killing fields. On the challenges of writing about one of the 20th century’s unknown genocides.
Colson Whitehead’s monsters — Zone One (Interview)
January 30, 2012 No Comments
He found his latest novel in his nightmares; in the zombie apocalypse, the terror and beauty of the everyday
To the readers and the lovers, united — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (Interview)
January 9, 2012 No Comments
On his novel of post-collegiate love and letters
Life of — Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child (Interview)
December 17, 2011 No Comments
On the uses and abuses of biography
Interview: Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies
August 16, 2011 No Comments
On the Celtic Tiger, growing up, and learning to not be too precious