Amitav Ghosh, Author. Houghton Mifflin $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-618-32997-7 A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual ...
Ghosh has written about past-life memories and climate change before, but this novel is one of his most ambitious books to date, tying the two themes together in an epic that spans decades.
As talks at the Glasgow U.N. climate summit accelerate, we look at how the roots of the climate crisis date back to Western colonialism with award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, who examines the ...
Amitav Ghosh believes that climate change requires rethinking the novel. His new work of fiction fails that standard.
Amitav Ghosh, the acclaimed Indian-born novelist, is well-known for exploring themes of culture, power and politics in his works of historical fiction set in Asia. His insightful new non-fiction, The ...
Amitav Ghosh's new book review: 'Wild Fictions' offers a glimpse into the mind of Amitav Ghosh, and on to the world through the lens of a well-read and widely travelled anthropologist-turned-writer.
It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries that its allure feels like a trap, a chasing of ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Melanie Finn GUN ISLAND By Amitav Ghosh A catastrophe is at hand, thanks to global warming. Even ...
How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ibis Trilogy’ and ‘Smoke and Ashes’
Amitav Ghosh’s book Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, shortlisted for the British Academy Prize 2024 weaves together the horticultural, social, and political economy of the colonial opium ...
The late English novelist and playwright William Golding may appear an unlikely starting point for understanding the multiple crises convulsing our world today. But, for acclaimed Indian writer Amitav ...
Novelist Amitav Ghosh takes us into the heart of the 19th century opium trade, when the West fed addiction in China. Amitav Ghosh (amitavghosh.com) Go back almost two centuries, and the global drug ...
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