Posts Tagged: review

PW calls it “exhilarating, “an inventive delight”

Posted May 13th, 2018 by Amitava Kumar & filed under Writing.

I’m grateful for this starred review of Immigrant, Montana from Publisher’s Weekly. Full review here.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Posted July 3rd, 2017 by Amitava Kumar & filed under Criticism.

My review of Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in Bookforum: On the morning of June 9, 2012, Avtar Singh called 911 in Selma, California, to say that he had killed his family and was about to turn the gun on himself. When the police reached his house, they sent in a… Read more »