Amitava Kumar, Duke Univ., $21.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8223-4578-7
Kumar’s searching and humane account of the global consequences of the U.S. “war on terror” gets behind the rhetoric and state public relations campaigns in a brisk but thoughtful narrative. Kumar covers intellectual and artistic responses to...
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Amitava Kumar. Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-52075-7
The plot of Kumar’s droll and exhilarating second novel (following Nobody Does the Right Thing) may feel familiar at first, but this coming-of-age-in-the-city story is bolstered by the author’s captivating prose, which keeps it consistently...
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Amitava Kumar. Duke Univ., $24.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-4780-0627-5
Vassar English professor and novelist Kumar (Immigrant, Montana) addresses fellow scholars—particularly those starting their careers—in an inventive essay collection that speaks both to his “attraction to academic writing and [his] rebellion against
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Amitava Kumar. Knopf, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-31901-7
Kumar (Immigrant, Montana) delivers a mostly engaging polemic about the role of fiction in a post-truth world. As Indian American novelist-journalist Satya works on a novel about fake news at a residency on an Italian island in early 2020, the Covid-
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Amitava Kumar. Knopf, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-53606-3
Kumar (A Time Outside This Time) unfurls a majestic Indian family saga in successive bildungsroman narratives of a father and daughter. Jadu Kunwar, an 80-something history professor in Patna, remembers the moment his mother gave birth to him in...
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