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...perhaps not surprising that Sujit Saraf chose Chandni Chowk as the main setting for his ambitious 750-page novel of politics, commerce and manners in modern India. The Peacock Throne does for Delhi and democracy what Vikram Chandra's recent 900-page Sacred Games does for Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and organized crime. Or what 19th century European novelists did when economic and intellectual winds howled: produce teeming, sprawling, barn-burning novels that try to describe everything in sight. The surprise is that Saraf is not, strictly speaking, a novelist. He works full-time as a space scientist...
...Conrad. Joseph Conrad. It's his best novel by a mile...
...lieu of literary criticism - I find I haven't done much of that at all since Sept. 11th. But I've written almost a sort of book-length amount of journalism, and a couple of stories about September 11th and all that implies, that era beginning then. And the novel I'm working on now has an Islamic theme...
...Yeah, I don't buy that. There's nothing wrong with Yellow Dog [Amis's previous novel...
...first e-mail, sent at 7:20 p.m. from “The Presidential Search Committee,” was immediately recognizable to some as a hoax when it alluded to a 1958 King Arthur novel by announcing “the reinstatement of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard’s once and future president...