Published by Bloomsbury Publishing / Pelican Press, 2014, 528 pages. I am one of those people who have a mental block about economics. When I read about it, my eyes glaze over and my brain goes “are you kidding?” and shuts down. I think this is ridiculous. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, and …
Month: March 2015
The Lives of Others…are always distant
Published by Vintage, 2014, 528 pages. Review by Usha Raman I picked up Neel Mukherjee's novel with much anticipation...well, perhaps it is wrong to use the term "picked up" because it was the first book I had downloaded on my Kindle Paperwhite and it may be more correct to say, "I swiped on to page …
How to be both…a creative not-quite conundrum
How to be Both: Ali SmithPublished by Hamish Hamilton, 2014, 384 pages. Review by Usha Raman The cover is deceptively like a book for young adults, a simple coming of age tale—two teenage girls from some time in the 1970s, walking on a street somewhere (possibly) in Paris. Ali Smith's novel, shortlisted for last year's …
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