Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer

Ferlinghetti, who published the legendary Beat poets and founded the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco died on February 22 at the age of 101.

Sandip Roy

· Feb 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm

What Rakesh Khanna learnt while putting together a book on India’s ghosts, monsters and demons

Ghosts across histories and geographies, now available for handy reference.

Sandip Roy

· Feb 06, 2021 · 08:30 am

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Acting legend, principled lodestar, utterly decent human being

He died on November 15 from Covid-19 complications in Kolkata. He was 85.

Sandip Roy

· Nov 15, 2020 · 01:30 pm

‘We have not comprehended the real scars left by the lockdown’: Author Udayan Mukherjee

The financial journalist-turned-writer’s new book ‘Essential Items’ is a collection of short stories featuring the lives of people during the pandemic.

Sandip Roy

· Nov 07, 2020 · 03:30 pm

For Bengali publishing, the pandemic has provided a much-needed push towards e-books

Lack of access to physical books finally forced publishers to cross the e-frontier that had been shying away from for years.

Sandip Roy

· Sep 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A science fiction conference in Kolkata showed that the genre has remained alive and well in Bengal

It is true, however, that Indian science fiction has been a bit of a stepchild of the Indian literary canon.

Sandip Roy

· Feb 16, 2019 · 12:30 pm

The book about Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Alien’ tells the story of the movie that wasn’t, in every sense

‘Travails With The Alien’ is not so much a book as it is a documentary in paperback.

Sandip Roy

· May 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

'I am American, not Asian-American.' Writer Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) never wanted a label

She wrote of hyphenated lives, but she did not want to be in a special section of the bookshelf.

Sandip Roy

· Feb 05, 2017 · 07:00 am

Photographs: How the colours of the Dhaka Lit Fest put out the darkness of anxiety

Held under the shadow of Islamic unrest, security concerns, and an atmosphere of uncertainty, the festival dispelled the gloom with its celebration of books and writers.

Sandip Roy

· Nov 28, 2015 · 11:30 am

Will this be the biggest debut novel of 2015? Sandip Roy’s 'Don’t Let Him Know'

The first chapter, in which a son finds a secret letter, but has he interpreted it correctly? Chapter One.

Sandip Roy

· Jan 03, 2015 · 07:30 am