Once you are through with “A Wild Sheep Chase”, you could wonder why Murakami bothered to give this novel a name. No character in this story is referred by a proper noun. Well almost no one, except an uncurious cat who finally gets one. “I”, a divorced twenty-nine year old lives a humdrum life;...
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In the clatter of cacophony and conversation, laughter and language, voice and volume; silence is a casualty that most often goes unnoticed, unaccounted. We hardly feel for it. Until you come across something like Hush. We were privileged to get a preview copy of the debut graphic novella by Manta Ray, a brand new...
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The only novel of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray narrates the story of the title character, Dorian Gray, an extravagantly handsome young man. His beauty inspires an artist friend, Basil Hallward to paint a masterpiece portrait. Through the artist, Dorian meets Lord Henry, an eloquent English nobleman. So enamoured is the innocent...
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“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” - From American Gods American Gods by Niel Gaiman presents a thrilling theater of conflict between the ancient and ageing folk gods – who landed in...
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A lot of us would kill to have a job like William Dalrymple’s. Travelling across the world, writing about it and getting paid (handsomely?). Not to say that that’s all he does. Dalrymple is also well known as a distinguished historian, a respected journalist and an intelligent literary critic. But at heart, he remains...
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