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Siddhartha Deb

Siddhartha Deb is the author of the novel The Light at the End of the World and the nonfiction book Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India.

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February 26, 2024
Siddhartha Deb
Nikki Haley Can’t Lose
She got creamed by Trump in South Carolina, but she comes from a milieu where you never really lose.
February 24, 2024
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They Came, They Saw, They Left Early: Trump Stumps in South Carolina
The insurgent energy of a 2016 Trump rally is gone. But the enemies are the same, and that may be all that matters.
October 26, 2022
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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
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The Smallness of Hanya Yanagihara’s Maximalist Novel
“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.
March 19, 2021
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The Shadow Over H.P. Lovecraft
Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.
August 25, 2020
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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
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The Pandemic Imagination
In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.
January 21, 2020
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Michel Houellebecq’s Fragile World
How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?
August 7, 2019
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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
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A Model Businessman
What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise
April 25, 2017
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The Rise of the Global Novelist
How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.
May 4, 2016
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The New Face of India Is the Anti-Gandhi
The violence, insecurity, and rage of Narendra Modi.
September 3, 2015
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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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