CHARM, SMARM, HARM
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (The Early Years) is a novel that connects the Nobel Prize-winning...
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RAINOFFANDON
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jun 18
- 5 min
Leopold is born
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris was published in 1935, when she was thirty-six. It is an energetic and...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- May 11
- 7 min
'A World of Love' by Elizabeth Bowen
A beautiful young woman reading a letter at the foot of an unlikely obelisk is the beginning of neither a romance nor a comedy.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Apr 25
- 6 min
'The Republic' by Joost de Vries
Who is he when he is "Philip de Vries”? Not the real Friso?
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Jon Fosse's 'Morning and Evening'
On the mainland, maybe on this very day, dark and wintry, Olai’s father Johannes feels unusually vigorous.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Mar 7
- 6 min
'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' by Charles Dickens
There are no sanctuaries, and no one is safe around the Cathedral where John Jasper leads the choir.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 21
- 4 min
'Anil’s Ghost' by Michael Ondaatje
If you think the rest of the novel is about making an identification and thus drawing retribution from the government, you would be wrong.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 11
- 9 min
HOLDING ON TO NOTHING: 'SEPTOLOGY' BY JON FOSSE
However, we eventually find out that the painting is no different from Asle's powerful abstract work.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jan 29
- 8 min
POPLARHAVEN
He had looked ahead to this day and thrown away nothing!
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Nov 30, 2023
- 4 min
Not. Guilty.
If he pulled off the steal, he would be doing posterity a favor, Figueras rationalizes to Berenice later.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Oct 24, 2023
- 9 min
Crooked shadows: 'Snow' by Orhan Pamuk
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Snow, by Orhan Pamuk, was originally published in Turkey as Kar by İletişm, Istanbul in 2002. It was a national...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Oct 11, 2023
- 7 min
SAVE THE SILVER! 'NOSTROMO'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta When published in 1905, Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard may well have been a page-turner. In 2023, when more than a...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Aug 8, 2023
- 3 min
BEHIND THE INSTAGRAM PHOTOS 'Look For Me There/ Grieving My Father, Finding Myself'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Luke Russert tells a difficult story through his travel diary, Look For Me There/ Grieving My Father, Finding...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jul 12, 2023
- 3 min
YOU GET THE PICTURE: 'The Making of Another Major Motion Picture’
Fleetingly, I missed enfant terrible OKB wearing Aviator shades.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Jun 1, 2023
- 5 min
A PERSONAL MATTER
Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oë died on March 3, 2023. He was eighty-eight years old. Oë tasted literary success when he was...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Apr 25, 2023
- 3 min
'The Years' by Annie Ernaux
A treasure of a book, a herstory that we longed to read, full of humility and strength at the same time.
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Mar 22, 2023
- 4 min
WILLA CATHER'S 'MY ÁNTONIA'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta My Ántonia was published in 1918. A kid loses both his parents within the year and, one pitch-dark Plains night in...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Mar 16, 2023
- 5 min
SALMAN RUSHDIE'S 'VICTORY CITY'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta Mr. Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, was published by Random House in 2023. From David Remnick’s article in The...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Mar 10, 2023
- 13 min
MISS MITCHELL DISPOSES, to a Brown woman
By Kohinoor Dasgupta British writer Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983) wrote 66 mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley, an alienist and a Consultant...
Kohinoor Dasgupta
- Feb 14, 2023
- 4 min
PHONE SPY: 'PEGASUS'
By Kohinoor Dasgupta February 14, 2023 Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, is a very important and frightening book about...
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