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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshMar 17, 2023 | 18:22
Happening and Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux: In which Annie gives it those words

This recommendation is unlike any before because this isn’t about a particular book, but two of her works – Happening and Simple Passion. It’s a great place to start if one were to be introduced to Ernaux’s vast body of work, most of which can be termed as autobiographical.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshMar 10, 2023 | 18:07
Arundhati Subramaniam's Love Without a Story: Meeting Yourself in Poems

Arundhati Subramaniam marries the magical and the myriad, monsoon and Mumbai, myth and metaphors in nearly every page of this majestic collection of poems. Like every night has its own soundtrack, each piece here has a harmony unique to its own. And every time you return to them, it makes minute invisible readjustments to perfectly fit your state of mind.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshMar 03, 2023 | 16:50
On Naseeruddin Shah's Autobiography: A Life of Adventure and Delight

One of the greatest joys of reading Naseeruddin Shah’s autobiography is that despite being one of the finest living actors in the world – to my mind, the finest ever – when he introduces the characters who feature in the book, he infuses those introductions with just unbridled warmth and admiration, and the occasional artistic envy.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshFeb 24, 2023 | 16:55
Ruskin Bond's Season of Ghosts: From Landour with Love

Equal parts charming and eerie, most of the stories in the Ruskin Bond anthology titled A Season of Ghosts are delightfully entertaining.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshFeb 17, 2023 | 17:39
Bear by Marian Engel: The Bear Bewitched Project

Bear managed to shock readers and critics alike when it released in 1976, inviting both controversies and a cult following.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshFeb 10, 2023 | 17:35
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata: The Inconvenient Truths about Us

Sayaka Murata's characters start out as conventional people living ordinary lives like you and me. And then there appears a line, a turn of phrase, a fracture somewhere along the way, like a sudden curve on a mountain road that you on the driver's seat didn't anticipate, which sets you off on a freefall that often outlives the length of the book you're reading.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshFeb 03, 2023 | 17:44
What Belongs To You: Garth Greenwell's Longing to Belong

Garth Greenwell's masterful debut novel has a first-person narrator who teaches literature at the American College of Sofia, much like the writer himself once did. Any reader who's aware of this will sense from the very beginning that the line between reality and fiction is blurry in the pages that follow.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshJan 27, 2023 | 17:06
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Nothing is out of bounds in Mariana Enríquez's book

Missing children, wandering spirits, dead babies, vengeful ghosts, battered and abandoned human beings inhabit the world of this book. Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer Mariana Enriquez is in no mood to please, protect, or pander her readers or give them what they may be expecting from her.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshJan 20, 2023 | 17:53
House Spirit: A Toast to Life under the Influence

Drinking in the northern part of India, where I have spent the past decade of my life, is a national sport. You drink with friends and acquaintances at house parties, you drink with journalists you've met for the first time over heated debates at rundown bars, you absolutely must drink at weddings, and you drink both to celebrate and mourn. I was once invited to a funeral dinner where the good late sir's favourite alcoholic beverage was part of the menu.

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Sayantan Ghosh
Sayantan GhoshJan 13, 2023 | 17:30
Haruki Murakami, A Companion for the Long Run

In his New York Times review of the book Geoff Dyer wrote, "I'm guessing that the potential readership for 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running' is 70 percent Murakami nuts, 10 percent running enthusiasts and an overlapping 20 percent who will be on the brink of orgasm before they've even sprinted to the cash register."

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