Amitava Kumar’s A Time Outside This Time is an exceedingly meta novel about the news in the time of propaganda and lies. The confusion of our times (Shutterstock) Like Kumar, Satya grew up in Patna ...

Kumar begins by framing his Notebook in the tradition of the journals of the Bronte sisters, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac and Annie Proulx. One may think that it will probably ...

Amitava Kumar writes (and paints and draws) every day. It is an “important” part of his identity, says the writer. The author of several works of nonfiction and four novels, Kumar creates work that is ...

Upon opening Amitava Kumar’s The Blue Book – A Writer’s Journal, I was filled with mild envy. Envy caused by Kumar’s drawings and paintings that adorn the book and to me, also constitute its primary ...

Mars Blackmon, played by Spike Lee, in She’s Gotta Have It saying, “Please baby. Please baby. Please baby, please baby. Please, please. Baby, baby.” I had arrived in the US the same year the movie was ...

New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI/PRNewswire): Picasso said that painting is a way of keeping a diary. The Blue Book is an example of such a diary. A diary, both in words and images, telling us that ...

Amitava Kumar’s new novel, “A Time Outside This Time,” often feels like something other than a novel. The narrator, Satya, is a professor and writer very much like Kumar, though we never get to read ...

"I finally felt I belonged,” Amitava Kumar says when I ask him about his reaction to Barack Obama including his latest novel, Immigrant, Montana (published in India as The Lovers), in his year-end ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty A TIME OUTSIDE THIS TIME By Amitava Kumar It is February 2020. Satya, the ...