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IN CONVERSATION
Coming to terms with history Anand writes in response to Keki Daruwalla's "Coming to terms with history" (Literary Review, May 7), a review of Alok Bhalla's Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home. THE sentence "... Urvashi Butalia's graphic recording of ...
Life and times of a serial novelist Alexander McCall Smith admits that it is tough balancing the demands of being an accidental writer. FACE TO FACE Poetry of the nitty-gritty Australian novelist, essayist and short-story writer Delia Falconer goes back into the past to find subjects for her books.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
Anti-fascist manifestoThe Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, (1930) Bread and Wine (1926) and The Seed Beneath the Snow, (1943), Ignazio Silone, Steerforth Press, Paperback, £18.99. Other Books Consulted: Christ Stopped Eboli, Carlo Levi; Selections from Prison Notebooks, Gramsci; Little Novels of Sicily, Giovanni Verga. FIRST IMPRESSIONS Vegemite Vindaloo; David McMahon; Penguin; Rs. 295. ENDPAPER Remarkable thrillers Five new novels offer suspense, scholarship and stylish writing. WORDSPEAK When language becomes informal THE vast number of emails in response to May's Wordspeak ("Echoes in Language") took me by surprise. It was written on a whim, as an off-the-cuff reaction to a linguistic oddity that I came across often in North America. Judging from the way that ... 
BookwatchOpus Dei: The Truth about its Rituals, Secrets and Power, John L. Allen, Penguin, £4.50. PRIOR to Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, few outside the Catholic Church — and even within its laity — had heard about the Opus ...
SECOND THOUGHTS `I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel' EVENT Liturgy of the Ajiaco Impressions of the Bogota Book Fair
POETRY Playtime in the pastures of language Hoskoté's sense of linguistic play comes through in this volume. CRITICISM Deconstructing the Victorian novel This anthology weaves together important themes in a historical narrative. LITERARY HISTORY Aesthetics of resistance Anthems chronicles the achievements of the Urdu Progressive Writers' Movement. FICTION In a new light "I would not be surprised if this novel turns out to be his magnum opus eventually." DALIT LITERATURE Quietly affirmative The Grip of Change is a work of literature, not a manifesto. POETRY A time for healing These poems show the vibrancy and the diversity of the Indian poetic tradition. FICTION A place like any other Set in Thailand, the stories focus on hopes, disappointments and everyday struggles. CITYSCAPES A rounder definition What does it means to be an expat in Bangalore? THRILLER A world of deception Donna Leon's book explores another Venice, a complex city of intrigue and corruption. FICTION Richly embroidered moments Brahma's Dream: A Novel; Shree Ghatage; IndiaInk; Rs. 495. AUTOBIOGRAPHY An unusual self-portrait Truly, this is a story of courage under fire.
TRENDS Bonding over the written word Are literary festivals becoming a fashion in India? |
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