Thoughts of a Bibliophile
Kabir AltafMusic, Theater, Literature, South Asia, Middle East
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Review: Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
Fruit Fly–Josh Silver’s debut adult novel–satirizes the publishing industry. It has often been compared to R.F. Kaung’s Yellowface since that novel also deals with the publishing industry and with issues of “cultural appropriation”. While Y...
Review: Howards End by E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) is one of my favorite novelists. Maurice is a classic of LGBT literature while A Passage to India is one of the great novels about colonialism. Incidentally, he features three times on the Modern Library’s list of t...
A Character in Melville Who Wouldn't
This book review was originally published on The South Asian Idea in May 2012.
Herman Melville’s 1853 novella, Bartleby the Scrivener, tells the story of a Wall Street lawyer who employs two scriveners (clerks). At the beginning of the no...
Review: The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon by Brian Thompson
This review was originally published on my personal blog in February 2022
It seems hard to believe that–as recently as the late 19th century in Britain– a woman could be placed in a mental asylum if her husband managed to get the signatur...
Great South Asian Novels in English
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Recently, I was looking at the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels published in English in the 20th century as well as The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels. That got me thinking about great...
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Pakistani-American. Musician trained in Hindustani (North Indian) classical music. M.Mus Ethnomusicology, SOAS University of London. My dissertation was on the decline of Hindustani music in Pakistan.
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