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Archive for July, 2009
Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder
Here’s a quick defense of genre fiction: Sci fi novels often have happy endings, unlike the pathos ridden tomes of so-called serious authors. In fact, the very act of writing science fiction is optimistic, since there is little to suggest mankind will resolve its antagonistic relationship with Earth, and have any kind of future to [...]
Between the Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga
Each of the stories opens with a light passage, as if from a tourist guidebook, introducing a different neighborhood in the city of Kittur, India. The story that follows is a portrait of one of the residents of the neighborhood, the locals a tourist passes but doesn’t meet. Poverty, its gradations a permutations, causes, and [...]
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
In a modern mode, this collection of short stories reads like a novel. The stories, of immigrants and the travails of the unfamiliar (and familiar), twine to demonstrate the challenges of the current age. There is a taoist idea of convention versus tradition: tradition is the embodiment of a culture’s greatness, and convention merely empty [...]
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Tragedy is the engine of the modern novel; understandably, since a story without conflict wouldn’t be interesting. Still, it makes for a long day, reading misery. The God of Small Things wraps its sorrows in exquisite beauty, humor, and joy. This is what makes a great novel. The depictions of Kerala, the river, the weather, [...]
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