Amitava Kumar
@amitavakumar
Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024, forthcoming). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
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Coming Tuesday April 16: Author and journalist Amitava Kumar shares his new book, 'My Beloved Life,' in conversation with Anderson Tepper. Get your free tickets to watch in person or online: cityofasylum.org/program/world-…
'It is good to stand in the middle of the stream and live rather than stand on the bank..to have both a sense of participation and also a sense of wise detachment because one knows the reality of things.' —Amitava Kumar #DailyDharma
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Society of the Spectacle, 2024.
Stunning photo of the Cullman Center Fellows at NY Public Library by my The Cullman Center colleague Accra Shepp.
Read the The New Yorker review of Amitava Kumar's latest, and then join us this Thursday for a discussion featuring authors Amitava, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Devika Rege.
Details and registration here: sofheyman.org/events/either-…
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
“I was born and grew up in India, and I’m trying to remember when I became Indian.” Novelist Amitava Kumar considers how his sense of national identity has changed. foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/08/ind…
Writers and poets from unfashionable towns and the seemingly stagnant countryside have created monuments of literature.
I review 'Provincials,' by Sumana Roy
wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via WSJ Books Section
Thanks for reading, Rosie Roti. I want ICC to sponsor a translation of Ondaatje's poem 'The Leg Glance' in the languages of all the cricket playing nations. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…
cc: Joseph O'Neill