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...tall-masted ship that will reshape her destiny. Sitting in his Kolkata home, Ghosh describes her to TIME as the book's "mainsail, its guiding energy." But while Deeti drives a story of considerable scope, she's not alone. Ghosh has a talent - revealed not only in this novel but previous ones - for bringing to life through his characters worlds that have been long forgotten. We meet, among others, a freed American slave, an impeccably-mannered Bengali nobleman turned convict and a cross-dressing businessman who scans the stools of strangers for spiritual omens...
Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...script, which Harris and Robert Knott have fashioned from Robert B. Parker's novel, Virgil and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) have come to Appaloosa to cleanse it of the violence, intimidation and corruption of Bragg and his men. That they will achieve their goal is virtually a given: How many times, in a standard western, has the bad guy won? (About as many times as the richest man in town has also been the most sympathetic.) What's at issue is not the speed of Virgil's hand but the intelligence of this cowboy's heart...
...best not to read for pleasure the literature you study. But I violated my own rule this summer when—as a postcolonial history and literature concentrator—I read, and enjoyed, some popular postcolonial lit.I don’t normally like reading postcolonial novels tailored for popular consumption—probably because I feel like I’ve overdosed. To me, Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” (which I was assigned to read for a history seminar) might have been better titled “Pulling Teeth...
...There is a quality to this book that is often absent from the contemporary novel. Let's call it grace...