Nixon’s Frown
Amit Chaudhuri on recently unearthed tapes of remarks Nixon made about South Asian women.
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Indian government’s Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Amit Chaudhuri on recently unearthed tapes of remarks Nixon made about South Asian women.
Amit Chaudhuri looks back on the Oxford of the late 1980s from an “Indian perspective.”
Amit Chaudhuri considers the relation between living, telling, and writing.
Amit Chaudhuri reviews the new critical edition of Gandhi’s autobiography.
Amit Chaudhuri on getting past the trauma of modernism.
LARB presents an excerpt from “The Origins of Dislike,” a new collection of essays by Amit Chaudhuri.