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Behind brand Booker Booker shortlist 2009 Short takes on this year’s nominations by novelist
EVENT Being bookish in Brazil Random notes on a book industry junket with a mind that wanders to the rainforests.
New releases
ESSAY A critical failure Winning literary prizes abroad is a habit with Indian writers; one we need to view with scepticism rather than naively accept as a sign of superior standards.
FACE TO FACE Seeking the self Poetry, says Kanimozhi, whose latest book was released recently, is about inner equilibriums. Excerpts from a conversation...
BOOK WATCH 
Intimacy of killingIntimacy of killing” might sound incongruous, but that is what “killology” founder Lt.Col. Dave Grossman seeks to detail in his 1995 Pulitzer shortlisted book On Killing. It has since — particularly ... ENDPAPER All is not revealed Waiting for the sequel to the Da Vinci Code? Well, The Lost Symbol is definitely not the one.
FICTION More management tales Another MBA tells his particular story. HISTORICAL Unknown Cromwell Wolf Hall, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2009, is a unique vision of English history. TRANSLATION For verse or for worse Vijay Nambisan’s translations of two 16th century Bhakti classics do not work given his limited access to the languages of the originals. FICTION Brilliant in parts The Quickening Maze, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is beautifully written but is limited by a serious absence of narrative unity. FICTION A flair for the unusual From a sluggish first half, Solo takes flight to a surreal world. JOURNEYS Traveller’s tales Of encounters in far-flung places. |
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