An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra [in AsianWeek]
25 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Indian, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
Novelist and essayist (and frequent New York Review of Books contributor) Mishra adds to what seems to be a growing hybrid genre of memoir infused with history, philosophy, and politics. What begins...
Eleven essays capture almost a half-century of Nobel Prize-winning Naipaul’s literary life. The final essay, “Two Worlds,” which he begins and ends by invoking Proust, is the lecture he gave when accepting the Nobel...