November 20, 2010 23:15 IST
Tragedy is alien to the Hebraic worldview,where not only is god ultimately just,but misfortune results from moral and cognitive failure.
October 29, 2010 02:26 IST
If its true that history is indeed cyclical,that must be the reason why irony never stays out of it.
October 09, 2010 03:32 IST
Here are the five must-read novels of the Nobel-winning Llosa
October 08, 2010 04:19 IST
Mario Vargas Llosa is a step in the right literary direction for a politically correct award
October 02, 2010 02:20 IST
In this age of post-art,Milan Kundera reflects on Fuentes and Fellini,Roth and Rabelais
September 04, 2010 00:55 IST
A thriller lays bare the violent political past of Peru
September 01, 2010 00:22 IST
No ones holding their breath about Israeli-Palestinian talks,given the risk-aversion on both sides.
July 24, 2010 23:49 IST
A Forster biography says his sexuality was fundamental to what he did and did not write...
June 30, 2010 02:03 IST
Why are we still putting up with refereeing howlers in football?...
June 03, 2010 01:23 IST
His governments fallow imagination aggravates Gazas pain,endangers Israelis...
May 15, 2010 22:01 IST
Graham Robb illumines the city from the Revolution to Sarko and the riots....
May 05, 2010 02:53 IST
When does a spy come in from the cold,if ever?
April 21, 2010 01:19 IST
A volcano with an unpronounceable name may not make you think of Iceland every time you see ash....
March 31, 2010 02:21 IST
The North Caucasus and Russias sense of security....
March 25, 2010 01:58 IST
Did Israel go too far for an America that is changing?
March 11, 2010 01:56 IST
The Dubai hit is a sidelight in the Israel-Palestine saga....
February 26, 2010 00:36 IST
Why Bengals public intellectuals are programmed to conform....
February 13, 2010 01:19 IST
THE PREGNANT WIDOW Martin Amis Jonathan Cape Pages: 470 18.99 pounds
January 30, 2010 01:07 IST
Theres a gentleman from Ripon Street in Calcutta whose eyes light up when he pronounces: An aged man is but a paltry...
January 13, 2010 02:38 IST
The new assembly-line for a decade of asymmetric jihad
January 02, 2010 00:18 IST
The Humbling Philip Roth Jonathan Cape Pages: 160 Rs 550
December 12, 2009 22:40 IST
Two recent books by two good scholars The Red Flag: A History of Communism by David Priestland and The Left at War by Michael Bérube...
November 28, 2009 01:02 IST
D.H. Lawrence was a good writer. James Joyce was a great writer. That is not to deprecate Lawrence,but to merely...
October 17, 2009 03:03 IST
East Europe,1989: seen as a writers revolution....
September 25, 2009 04:32 IST
Obama,Netanyahu,Abbas met,but it was mere protocol....
