Mohsin Siddiqui
Mapping the history and future of the gene that defines who we are in a single book is not an easy task
Published 12 Mar, 2017 07:25am
AH, Dubai. The land where everything is bigger, better, shinier and newer. Where the answer to any problem is to...
Published 11 Jan, 2015 06:52am
IF ever there were a time to not judge a book by its cover, it would be during the longlisting of novels for the Man...
Published 14 Dec, 2014 06:39am
HONESTLY, I don’t even know where to begin with The Blazing World. Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize, Siri...
Published 02 Nov, 2014 06:27am
THERE are two reasons why I didn’t set fire to my copy of Orfeo, Richard Powers’ latest book, which had been...
Published 29 Sep, 2014 04:42pm
FOR well over a decade now, the death of the print industry, whether journalism or book publishing, has been...
Published 31 Aug, 2014 06:23am
IT’S not easy to know where to begin with Frog Music, the first novel that Emma Donoghue has published since her...
Published 11 Aug, 2014 02:31pm
As Sisterland unfolds, it returns to the idea of self-fulfilling prophecies & the consequences of self-created problems
Published 13 Jul, 2014 06:02am
Diane Setterfield may well be the victim of her own success. Her first novel, the eminently readable The Thirteenth...
Published 25 May, 2014 07:36am
I’M not quite sure if Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist is actually quite the literary tour de...
Published 27 Feb, 2014 04:45pm
Jeeves is being put up in the old country manor while Bertram Wilberforce Wooster finds himself being a son of toil
Published 09 Feb, 2014 07:43am
Terry Pratchett seems to be an inexhaustible book-writing machine
Published 19 Jan, 2014 07:58am
IT seems, sometimes disconcertingly so, that the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is...
Published 22 Dec, 2013 07:49am
IF you thought that the One Ring coveted by Sauron in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was the key to all evil,...
Published 02 Dec, 2013 12:09pm
It’s 1986, and Eleanor and Park are — as you may well have guessed by now — in love
Published 17 Nov, 2013 07:45am
The story of Nate P. and his love affairs begins a few months before the imminent publication of Nate’s first novel.
Published 14 Oct, 2013 07:28am
Reviewed by Mohsin Siddiqui
Published 18 Aug, 2013 05:55pm
It sounds like the start of a joke: A golem and a jinni walk into New York City at the turn of the century.
Well,...
Published 28 Jul, 2013 08:41am
Most novels follow a fairly standard format: beginning, middle and end. This is the form drilled into almost anyone...
Published 07 Jul, 2013 10:37am
