Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist who has published several works of non-fiction and three novels. His most recent title is The Blue Book. Kumar’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, Guernica, the Nation and several other publications, He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Particulate Matter
Amitava Kumar
‘India, as we know it, is changing. What will it become?’
Memoir by Amitava Kumar.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate
Amitava Kumar
‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’
Memoir by Amitava Kumar.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Bookshelves: John Berger in My Family Album
Amitava Kumar
‘The contours of the family arranged on the bookshelf shifted.’
First Sentence | Issue 162
Notebooks
Amitava Kumar
‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Patna Roughcuts
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar returns to his hometown of Patna
Essays & Memoir | Issue 130
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’
