Joy Williams and humanity’s ultimate failure
The author’s new collection of short stories is haunted by animals – and by our failed stewardship of the natural world
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Neel Mukherjee is the author of A Life Apart, The Lives of Others and Choice
The author’s new collection of short stories is haunted by animals – and by our failed stewardship of the natural world
By Neel Mukherjee
Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement poses two, thought-provoking questions about how we write about climate change.
By Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee is moved and unsettled by everything from psychological realism to ghost stories.
By Neel Mukherjee
Coming in at three times the length of Paradise Lost, Carole Satyamurti’s modern version of the epic is a remarkable achievement.
By Neel Mukherjee
The End of Days kills its protagonist five times in a novel grounded in the turbulence of 20th-century Europe.
By Neel Mukherjee
The Murty Classical Library of India tackles a multilingual, epic tradition.
By Neel Mukherjee
Green, one-eyed men, a chubby, disfigured dwarf, writhing worms with humanoid faces, aborted foetuses and vast, white eggs with…
By Neel Mukherjee
Can we imagine morality on the scale of the human species as a whole?
By Neel Mukherjee
Wicomb was born in South Africa but has lived in Britain since the 1970s. Like previous work, her latest book…
By Neel Mukherjee