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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First Sentence | The Online Edition
Notebooks
Amitava Kumar
‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Patna Roughcuts
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar returns to his hometown of Patna
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
Bookshelves: John Berger in My Family Album
Amitava Kumar
‘The contours of the family arranged on the bookshelf shifted.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 130
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’