A Strange Pair

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In the middle of Crime and Punishment Dovstojesky – otherwise sticking tight to his characters from beginning to end – takes a brisk leap back:…

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The Dialectics of Blake

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One knows by comparison and sometimes, as in Blake, through contraries. It is evident in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience and less…

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Walter Benjamin, Or How the Essay Should Be

Walter Benjamin, Or How the Essay Should Be

Atharva Pandit studies Walter Benjamin’s art of essay

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Saadat Hasan Manto - A Retrospective

Saadat Hasan Manto – A Retrospective

Maitreyee ponders over Manto’s writings

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Colonial India and Genealogy At Sea

Colonial India and Genealogy At Sea

Akhil Katyal explores how Amitav Ghosh plays with the concept of genealogy to give us an intricate history of colonialism in his 2008 novel ‘Sea of Poppies’.

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The Apocalypse according to Krasznahorkai

The Apocalypse

Atharva Pandit explores the works of the great Hungarian writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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Christopher Hitchens: The Great Contrarian

The Great Contrarian

Akshay Sreevatsa ponders over Christopher Hitchens and his book, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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To Wait and Not See Nothing: Tor Ulven’s Unheard Language

To Wait and Not See Nothing

Atharva Panditon writes on Tor Ulven, the modernist Norwegian poet who has commanded respect and considerable influence over contemporary Norwegian poetry, and yet, hitherto remains largely unknown in English-language literature.

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The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy

The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy

A re-run of the interview with U R Ananthamurthy from the July issue.

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Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute

Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute

Arul Gaspar pays tribute to the late writer, Nadine Gordimer, who was an agent for political and social commitment

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Whose Real is it Anyway?

Whose Real is it Anyway?

Tanuj Solanki responds to Amitava Kumar’s article, “The Shiver of the Real” from May 2014 issue of The Caravan

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The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy

The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy

Arvind Radhakrishnan & Sudeep Reguna interviews noted writer and Jnanpith winner, Prof. U. R. Ananthamurthy

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On Reading in Bed: Montaigne & Me

On Reading in Bed

Robert Boucheron refers to essays of Montaigne while on the subject of reading

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Tribute to a Phenomenal Woman

Tribute to a Phenomenal Woman

The Bangalore Review pays tribute to Maya Angelou

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Revisiting Premier's Mr. Shanbhag

Revisiting Premier’s Mr. Shanbhag

Arvind Radhakrishnan & Suhail Rasheed catches up with T S Shanbhag, the owner of Premier Book Shop, for a candid chat

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