Reviews and Columns
Film
On Al Pacino, The Guardian
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Antonioni's Women, Hazlitt
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On Saim Sadiq's Joyland, Hazlitt
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On writers in movies, Hazlitt
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On Celine Song's Past Lives and Wim Wenders's Perfect Days, Hazlitt
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What does artistic freedom mean for a filmmaker today, Hazlitt
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Two paths for the indie film, Hazlitt
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On Satyajit Ray’s The Hero, The Times Literary Supplement
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On Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin, Hazlitt
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On movies and rain, Hazlitt
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On Todd Field’s Tar, Hazlitt
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On teen movies, Hazlitt
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I’ve never seen... Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, The Guardian
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On movies and enchantment, Hazlitt
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Revisiting a classic documentary on Kashmir, Hazlitt
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​Considering Oscar Isaac’s face, Hazlitt
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On stills in movies, Hazlitt
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On Roman Polanski’s Carnage, The Threepenny Review (Access via JSTOR here)
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Books
On Orhan Pamuk's notebooks, Air Mail​​
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On Emmanuel Carrere's V13, Air Mail
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On William Dalrymple's The Golden Road, The Observer UK​
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On Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations, The Observer UK
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On Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin, The Observer UK
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On Neel Mukherjee’s Choice, The Observer UK​
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On Cynthia Zarin's In Italy, The Observer UK
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On Teju Cole’s Tremor, The Observer UK
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On Philippe Sands’s The Last Colony, Air Mail
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On Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, The Observer UK
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On Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, The Observer UK
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On Tania Branigan’s Red Memory, Air Mail
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On Paul Harding’s This Other Eden, The Observer UK
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On Livia Manera Sambuy's In Search of Amrit Kaur, Air Mail
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On three short novels (and a long one), The Observer UK
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On Maria Ressa’s How to Stand Up to a Dictator, Air Mail
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On Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September, Air Mail
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On Nell Zink's Avalon, The Observer UK
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On Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends, The Observer UK​
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On Robert Lowell’s Memoirs, The Guardian
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On Hernan Diaz’s Trust, The Observer UK
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On Patrick Raden Keefe’s Rogues, The Observer UK
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On Margo Jefferson’s Constructing A Nervous System, The Observer UK
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On Tove Ditlevsen’s The Trouble With Happiness, Air Mail​
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On Matthieu Aikins’s The Naked Don’t Fear The Water, The Guardian
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On Pankaj Mishra’s Run And Hide, The Observer UK
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On Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods, The Guardian
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On Mary Gaitskill’s Oppositions, The Observer UK
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On Ann Patchett’s These Precious Days, The Guardian
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On Amitava Kumar’s A Time Outside This Time, The New York Times Book Review
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On Tash Aw’s Strangers On A Pier, The Observer UK
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On Jay Parini’s Borges And Me, The Guardian
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On Aminatta Forna’s The Window Seat, Air Mail
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On Samira Shackle’s Karachi Vice, The Guardian
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On Tove Ditlevsen’s Copenhagen trilogy. Air Mail
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On Lizzie Collingham’s The Biscuit, Air Mail​
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On Barbara Demick's Eat The Buddha, The Guardian
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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)
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On Mark Doty’s What Is The Grass, The Guardian
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On Yan Lianke’s Three Brothers, Air Mail
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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
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On Lucia Berlin’s stories, The Guardian
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