Reviews and Columns
Film
On pictures of Satyajit Ray making pictures, Apollo
On Al Pacino, The Guardian
Antonioni's Women, Hazlitt
On Saim Sadiq's Joyland, Hazlitt
On writers in movies, Hazlitt
On Celine Song's Past Lives and Wim Wenders's Perfect Days, Hazlitt
What does artistic freedom mean for a filmmaker today, Hazlitt
Two paths for the indie film, Hazlitt
On Satyajit Ray’s The Hero, The Times Literary Supplement
On Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin, Hazlitt
On movies and rain, Hazlitt
On Todd Field’s Tar, Hazlitt
On teen movies, Hazlitt
I’ve never seen... Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, The Guardian
On movies and enchantment, Hazlitt
Revisiting a classic documentary on Kashmir, Hazlitt
Considering Oscar Isaac’s face, Hazlitt
On stills in movies, Hazlitt
On Roman Polanski’s Carnage, The Threepenny Review (Access via JSTOR here)
Books
On Ann Patchett's Whistler, The New Statesman
On Rahul Bhattacharya's Railsong, The Observer UK
On Brandon Taylor's Minor Black Figures, The New Statesman
On Makenna Goodman's Helen of Nowhere, The Observer UK
Life and fate in Kolkata, The New Statesman
When India was the seat of Islam, The Observer UK
On Eimear McBride's The City Changes Its Face, The Washington Post
On Ayşegül Savaş's Long Distance, The Observer UK
On contemporary histories of the Indian partition, The Observer UK
On Tash Aw's The South, The Washington Post
On Orhan Pamuk's notebooks, Air Mail
On Emmanuel Carrere's V13, Air Mail
On William Dalrymple's The Golden Road, The Observer UK
On Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations, The Observer UK
On Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin, The Observer UK
On Neel Mukherjee’s Choice, The Observer UK
On Cynthia Zarin's In Italy, The Observer UK
On Teju Cole’s Tremor, The Observer UK
On Philippe Sands’s The Last Colony, Air Mail
On Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, The Observer UK
On Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, The Observer UK
On Tania Branigan’s Red Memory, Air Mail
On Paul Harding’s This Other Eden, The Observer UK
On Livia Manera Sambuy's In Search of Amrit Kaur, Air Mail
On three short novels (and a long one), The Observer UK
On Maria Ressa’s How to Stand Up to a Dictator, Air Mail
On Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September, Air Mail
On Nell Zink's Avalon, The Observer UK
On Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends, The Observer UK
On Robert Lowell’s Memoirs, The Guardian
On Hernan Diaz’s Trust, The Observer UK
On Patrick Raden Keefe’s Rogues, The Observer UK
On Margo Jefferson’s Constructing A Nervous System, The Observer UK
On Tove Ditlevsen’s The Trouble With Happiness, Air Mail
On Matthieu Aikins’s The Naked Don’t Fear The Water, The Guardian
On Pankaj Mishra’s Run And Hide, The Observer UK
On Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods, The Guardian
On Mary Gaitskill’s Oppositions, The Observer UK
On Ann Patchett’s These Precious Days, The Guardian
On Amitava Kumar’s A Time Outside This Time, The New York Times Book Review
On Tash Aw’s Strangers On A Pier, The Observer UK
On Jay Parini’s Borges And Me, The Guardian
On Aminatta Forna’s The Window Seat, Air Mail
On Samira Shackle’s Karachi Vice, The Guardian
On Tove Ditlevsen’s Copenhagen trilogy. Air Mail
On Lizzie Collingham’s The Biscuit, Air Mail
On Barbara Demick's Eat The Buddha, The Guardian
Four Social Novels Consider The World’s Ills, The New York Times Book Review (I was also interviewed on The New York Times Book Review podcast)
On Mark Doty’s What Is The Grass, The Guardian
On Yan Lianke’s Three Brothers, Air Mail
On Thant Myint-U’s The Hidden History of Burma, The Guardian
On Peter Kaldheim’s Idiot Wind, The Guardian
On Aleksandar Hemon’s memoirs, The Guardian
On Tatyana Tolstaya’s Aetherial Worlds, The Guardian
On Lucia Berlin’s stories, The Guardian