Acclaimed author and cultural critic Amitav Ghosh presents "Stories from the Edge of the Sea: Memory, Catastrophe, and the ...

Amitav Ghosh, Author. Houghton Mifflin $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-618-32997-7 A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual ...

As talks at the Glasgow U.N. climate summit accelerate, we look at how the roots of the climate crisis date back to Western colonialism with award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, who examines the ...

It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries that its allure feels like a trap, a chasing of ...

New York; March 8, 2024 — Last week, award-winning author Amitav Ghosh sat down with Princeton professor and former BBC journalist Razia Iqbal for a conversation about his latest book, Smoke and Ashes ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh takes us into the heart of the 19th century opium trade, when the West fed addiction in China. Amitav Ghosh (amitavghosh.com) Go back almost two centuries, and the global drug ...

Amitav Ghosh, the acclaimed Indian-born novelist, is well-known for exploring themes of culture, power and politics in his works of historical fiction set in Asia. His insightful new non-fiction, The ...

Discover Amitav Ghosh's biography, books, awards, and contributions to Indian literature and global storytelling.

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, we look at India, which is now under the largest lockdown in human history, with 1.3 billion people ordered to shelter in place. As the country’s ...

UPDATE: Jay Corcoran filmed some behind the scenes interviews with Amitav Ghosh, Jonathan Spence and members of the audience. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch.) The relevance of past to ...

THE GLASS PALACE. By Amitav Ghosh. Random House, $25.95. THE first Glass Palace we discover in Amitav Ghosh's sprawling historical novel by that name is the vast central hall of the royal palace in ...

Amitav Ghosh, whose book “Gun Island” is set in an ecologically unstable world, wants literature to explore the environment as much as it does other crises. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta How do you ...