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Author
Siddhartha Deb
@debhartha
Siddhartha Deb’s new novel,
The Light at the End of the World
, will be published in 2023.
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October 26, 2022
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Uncompromising Visions
Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.
January 28, 2022
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
The Smallness of Hanya Yanagihara’s Maximalist Novel
“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.
March 19, 2021
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
The Shadow Over H.P. Lovecraft
Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.
August 25, 2020
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
Héctor Tobar’s Radical Road Trip Novel
“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.
March 16, 2020
Siddhartha Deb
The Pandemic Imagination
In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.
January 21, 2020
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
Michel Houellebecq’s Fragile World
How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?
August 7, 2019
Siddhartha Deb
India’s Looming Ethno-Nationalist Catastrophe
The decision to revoke Kashmir's special status is part of a ghastly—and popular—agenda for Delhi's hard-right Hindu government.
May 28, 2019
Siddhartha Deb
India’s Chilling Lesson for the Left
Narendra Modi has been reelected. In part, that's because Indian leftists, like American leftists, have been trying to imitate right-wingers rather than countering them.
April 4, 2018
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
A Model Businessman
What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise
April 25, 2017
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
The Rise of the Global Novelist
How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.
May 4, 2016
Magazine
Siddhartha Deb
The New Face of India Is the Anti-Gandhi
The violence, insecurity, and rage of Narendra Modi.
September 3, 2015
Siddhartha Deb
Where the Dead Refuse to Vanish
Eka Kurniawan’s fiction reckons with Indonesia’s bloody inheritance
May 15, 2015
Siddhartha Deb
Those Mythological Men and Their Sacred, Supersonic Flying Temples
What tales of ancient Vedic aircraft tell us about India’s place in the modern world
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