I’m lucky to have an essay of mine published as the Weekend Essay at the New Yorker. Please read the piece here. I have also compiled a few images from my trip in my latest Substack newsletter. Here’s an image that I was unable to include in the album, of Bihari migrant workers from… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Amitava Kumar
A Public Space Master Class
Am offering a virtual workshop at A Public Space on the role of structure in writing.
Happy Pub Day
Feb 11. Happy pub day. The paperback of A Time Outside This Time comes out today. When the hardcover was published, The New Yorker described the book as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” Also, it is my father’s birth anniversary today. Here is a link to a piece in Granta magazine; the piece was… Read more »
Paperback Row
New York Times Book Review, February 9, 2025.
The Hindu names My Beloved Life Among the Best Books of 2024
Here is the link to the story in The Hindu. And this is the New Yorker magazine’s recommendation from its 2024 list:
The Green Book
HarperCollins India announces the release on Dec 5, 2024 of The Green Book, the final volume in my trilogy of drawing books-plus-diaries. My eternal thanks to Udayan Mitra of HarperCollins India and to Hemali Sodhi of A Suitable Agency. An excerpt: Many of the drawings and paintings in this book are the result of the… Read more »
What If Trump Wins
The terrible prospect of a second Trump presidency raises in my mind several questions, and one of them concerns our survival as artists and writers. How will we respond? I have been thinking of my 2021 novel A Time Outside This Time that was written during the years of the Trump rule. It was… Read more »
UK Paperback out on March 6
Thank you to Picador for this fabulous cover for the paperback edition of My Beloved Life out on March 6, 2025.
India’s 78th Independence Day
Here are a few portraits from my current project on Indians discussing their idea of India: Actor Manoj Bajpayee Journalist and writer Supriya Nair Pankaj Kumar, migrant worker Sidhique Kappan, jailed journalist More here.
Lethal Heat
I have a piece in The Guardian on the election results asking if we can have democracy if temperatures continue to rise. The crucial point to be noted here is that the heat did not figure at all among the thundering sentiments delivered from the dais by the candidates. The prominent environmentalist Ashish Kothari told… Read more »