Pankaj Mishra

Articles by Pankaj Mishra

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Behold the Good European

  • 07 February 2000

As a student in India, Pankaj Mishra read Nietzsche and began to understand something of the devastating history of his own country, and how he himself could become a writer

A living monument. Self-indulgence is all very well when celebrating the bicentenary of a national hero, but a more analytical approach makes a better biography

  • 30 August 1999

Pushkin's Button Serena Vitale, translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild Fourth Estate, 398pp, £16.99 ISBN 1857029356 Collected Stories Alexander Pushkin Everyman, 608pp, £10.99

The emperor's new clothes. Salman Rushdie has written an alarming new kind of anti-literature, with banal obsessions and empty bombast, pseudo-characters and non-events

  • 09 April 1999

The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 448pp, £18

More of the same

  • 12 February 1999

Bech at Bay John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 241pp, £16.99

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What if...

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What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Film review

A Serious Man

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