Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of non-fiction and a novel. His latest book is Immigrant, Montana, coming out in paperback in June 2019 from Vintage. He teaches English at Vassar College. His essay ‘Pyre’ was published in Granta 130 and included in The Best American Essays 2016.

Amitava Kumar on Granta.com

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Bookshelves: John Berger in My Family Album

Amitava Kumar

‘The contours of the family arranged on the bookshelf shifted.’

First SentenceFirst Sentence | The Online Edition

First Sentence | The Online Edition

Notebooks

Amitava Kumar

‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Jennifer

Amitava Kumar

‘I was overcome by a feeling that took root then and has never left me, the feeling that in this land that was someone else’s country, I did not have a place to stand.’