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 ...

Strange, sometimes eerie, but oddly believable, Amitav Ghosh’s new novel lives in the friction between rationalist ...

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 ...

Award-winning Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh, author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, reads from his latest novel, “Gun Island,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at Grace-Trinity Community Church, 1430 W ...

Born in Calcutta, and raised between India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Amitav Ghosh has published several works of fiction as well as non-fiction and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at ...

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 ...

The question, posed by author and activist Amitav Ghosh to a crowd of 200 at Georgetown University on March 30, characterizes the writer’s desire to share stories about the environment that return ...

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A new book asks, among many provocative questions, is the elevation of human above all other species, indeed above the Earth itself, responsible for many of Earth's problems? Amitav Ghosh, the Indian ...

Can climate change and all its attendant woes — food shortages, refugee crises, infrastructure collapse, economic devastation — become the stuff of literary fiction? Writer Amitav Ghosh thinks it ...

Eye, which uses reincarnation and cooking to discuss climate change and challenge technocratic worldviews. Read more at ...

Amitav Ghosh is a globally renowned novelist, essayist and intellectual, whose work transcends cultures, history and disciplines. His narratives and style of storytelling include rigorous research and ...