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Book Reviews

The Business of Pleasure

Chintan Girish Modi

The offline and online contours of sex work in Mumbai

Intimate City
Manjima Bhattacharjya
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias /
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias
Stephen Biddle
Rebels versus Soldiers

Increasingly, guerrilla groups and government troops exhibit similar military behaviour

The Unmarriageable Man /
The Unmarriageable Man
Ashok Ferrey
Ashok Ferrey: Our Fathers in Heaven

Ashok Ferrey’s new book captures Sri Lankans at home and abroad. The author tells Antara Raghavan about the persistence of grief and the art of construction

I Want a Poem /
I Want a Poem
Jerry Pinto
Bound by the Need for Breath

The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music /
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri: ‘I place our music in our experience of distraction and listening’

Author and musician Amit Chaudhuri speaks to V Shoba about his new book on modernism in Hindustani classical music and ways to renew the art form

This Life At Play: Memoirs /
This Life At Play: Memoirs
Translated from the Kannada by Girish Karnad (1938-2019) and Srinath Perur
‘There was no telling where a new bud might sprout’

In his memoir, translated for the first time into English, Girish Karnad writes that his artistic evolution began the instant he set foot in college

The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World /
The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Linda Colley
The First Draft

An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions

Whereabouts /
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Author of Anywhere

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, written in Italian and translated into English, refreshes her themes of solitude and belonging with renewed vigour

Leave the World Behind /
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Edge of the Abyss

A middle-class American family confront uncomfortable truths in a time of crisis

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