Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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How To Fail Properly
The new issue of Brick is out. Among the offerings are pieces and interviews with some of my favorite people—plus a series where writers have been asked to share their obsessions (50 words). See below. I’m one of the contributing writers an...
Emma Thompson is Indignant
An evening in May. Classes were over and it was either just before graduation or the day after. I was taking a walk on my college campus and stopped for a minute to take a picture for my friend Jordan. I send her occasional pics unimaginati...
What Will You Do For A Year
My son needed to be taken to some graduation party in Beacon. The whole afternoon was lost now: I’d have preferred to nap. Then I cheered up because it struck me that I could drop him at the party and spend all that time at Dia Beacon. At f...
Satyajit Ray on Route 66
I was stuck in a decaying motel on Route 66 the other night in the vast American Midwest and the Knicks weren’t playing so I thought I’d watch a film by Satyajit Ray.
I was in the ninth or tenth standard when I went to the Elphinstone cine...
Free Writing
I want to say something about the sudden, surprising (and yet not surprising) emergence of the youth-driven Cockroach Janta Party in India. When I last checked this new inchoate political entity had amassed 22.8 million followers on Instagr...
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Writer. Novels include Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 2018); A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, 2021); My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
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