Reviews
Caught in the Net
On Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones
The New York Times Book Review, September 11, 2011
Fiction Chronicle
New books by Banana Yoshimoto, Marcelo Figueras, Helon Habila, & Johanna Skibsrud
The New York Times Book Review, July 1, 2011
The Deity with a Pen
On Alice Albinia's Leela's Book
The Guardian, July 1, 2011
Lost Boys
A review of Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator
The Times Literary Supplement, March 2010
Voice of the South Asian Frontier
On Qurratulain Hyder
Brooklyn Rail, January 2011
All Material
A review of Hanif Kureishi's Collected Stories
The Times Literary Supplement, March 2010
The Smack Wars
A review-essay on Narco-trafficking and the 'War on Terror'
The Brooklyn Rail, February 2010
On Tash Aw's Map of the Invisible World
Time Out New York, January 18, 2010
East is East
On William Dalrymple's Nine Lives
The Guardian Review, October 24, 2009
On Victor Lavalle's Big Machine
Time Out New York, August 19, 2009
Down and out in Delhi
Hirsh Sawnhey takes a trip through India's chaotic megalopolis
The Guardian, July 25, 2009
A master servant thing
On Daniyal Mueenudin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
TLS, April 17, 2009
An Idiot's Guide to India
On Slumdog Millionaire's real failing
The Guardian, February 21, 2009
Dope nexus
On Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
New York Observer, October 23, 2008
Delhi underbelly
On Vikas Swarup's Six Suspects
The Guardian, October 18, 2008
Off course
On Nam Le's The Boat
The Times Literary Supplement, October 10, 2008
Between rage and despair
On Jean-Claude Izzo's A Sun for the Dying
The Daily Telegraph, September 20, 2008
Old insurgencies
On Qurratulain Hyder's Fireflies in the Mist
The Times Literary Supplement, July 18, 2008
No place like home
On Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
The Guardian, June 7, 2008
India pageant
On Manil Suri's Age of Shiva
The Times Literary Supplement, April 11, 2008
On Leif Borthen's The Road to San Vicente
The Times Literary Supplement, February 29, 2008
In times of love and war
On Elina Hirvonen's When I Forgot
The Times Literary Supplement, February 15, 2008
Fiction goes back to the future
Since 9/11, novels speculating about doomsdays on the way have made a striking return
The Guardian, November 16, 2007
A novelist who speaks through music
On the border-crossing soundtracks of Jean-Claude Izzo
The Guardian, September 27, 2007
On Manchan Magan's Manchan's Travels
The Times Literary Supplement, September 21, 2007
Indian literature, not in English
The Guardian, August 14, 2007
A burnt out world
On Jean-Claude Izzo's Solea
The Times Literary Supplement, July 12, 2007
The beautiful sweeper
On Mazhar ul Islam's The Season of Love, Bitter Almonds and Delayed Rains
The Times Literary Supplement, December 15, 2006
In the wide world
On Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
The Times Literary Supplement, September 22, 2006
Prose culture
On Heather McGowan's Duchess of Nothing
The Brooklyn Rail, February 2006
The end to Mishra
On Pankaj Mishra's An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
The Brooklyn Rail, February 2005
Pedro confronts the ghost of Franco
On Bad Education and the cinema of Pedro Almodovar
The Brooklyn Rail, January 2005
The media and the message
A review of Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall's True Lies
The Brooklyn Rail, October 2004
A view from Queens
On Yongsoo Park's Las Cucarachas
The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2004
Legacy of the Cold War
On Mahmood Mamdani's Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2004
Kareem's got other skills
On Imad Rahman's I Dream of Microwaves
The Brooklyn Rail, May 2004
From Buddha to Adam
On Hanif Kureishi's The Body
The Brooklyn Rail, March 2004
The Ganguli Bunch
On Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2003
What's in a name?
On collective identity and the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri
Little Magazine, Volume IV, Issue 3
