What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response

Not surprisingly, a new generation of readers has discovered the book.

Rohan Parikh

· Mar 28, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘The Body Myth’: This novel interrogates notions of normalcy in love, life, longing – and loss

The upper middle-class urban setting might be familiar, but Rheea Mukherjee’s depiction of complicated love and illness turns many assumptions upside down.

Rohan Parikh

· Aug 03, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Before you read Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’, read her masterly ‘Eileen’

The strangeness of Moshfegh’s second novel is foreshadowed in the search for normalcy in her debut work, ‘Eileen’.

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom

Born on July 3, 1883, the German-speaking Jewish writer of fiction showed us glimpses of rays of hope breaking through walls of despair.

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 03, 2019 · 07:00 pm

Reading this epic novel is an immersive way of learning the history of Tibet

Tsewang Yishey Pemba’s ‘White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings’ is a gripping work that traces the fate of Tibet and its people over several decades.

Rohan Parikh

· Jun 09, 2019 · 07:30 am

What Junot Diaz’s fictional character Yunior tells us about his troubles with relationships

Diaz was accused of sexual harassment one year ago. His confessional essay and his fiction point to many problems.

Rohan Parikh

· May 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm