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 & 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 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.’
Fiction|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.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Patna Roughcuts
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar returns to his hometown of Patna
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’
