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No Questions Please
Anuradha Ananth
Unsuccessful attempts at the Berlin International Book Festival to understand how the reclusive JM Coetzee’s mind works
Making Celluloid from Cellulose
The difficult and often distortive experiment of making movies of books
Flaunting the Write Look
In a world inundated with books, a female writer’s sexiness serves as a handy marketing tool. But, Annie Zaidi warns, this can prove counter-productive to a writer who wants to be taken seriously
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Readers
It seems no one wants to curl up with an Agatha Christie or dig into a Harper Lee anymore. People now read self-help books
Come One, Come All
Indian publishers are in overdrive, churning out books that offer marginal profits. But in the process, have they become glorified printers?
What’s Funny About It?
Going by Google’s idea of what constitutes humour, global dominance will elude it for a while yet.
Loud Silence
Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.
Hanif and the Sea of Stories
Hanif Kureishi’s older stories are brilliant, funny and compelling. But the newer ones are a disappointment.
About Science and Sex
Tired of the same old stuff about love and loss, migrants and displacement? Delve into Ian McEwan’s Solar and encounter the discomforts of making science interesting.
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