Bumper Year for The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2012 long-list is out and it’s in with the new.
“We were considering novels not novelists, texts not reputations,” says Peter Stothard. Shortlist to come September 11.
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Arundhati Roy’s Political Writing
What has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels.
“When her essay about the trip, Walking with the Comrades, first appeared in India last year, Roy was fiercely criticised for humanising these rebels.
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