Book Review: “Soul Mountain” by Gao Xingjian
More a survey of China than the exhausting search for the Self, what will remain is some of the most beautiful prose I’ve encountered.
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Book review: “Spies” by Marcel Beyer
A poet, Marcel Beyer’s prose lyrically paints what the children invent, since they cannot see the insides and outsides of the tragic love story that uncovers why they have dark eyes.
Read MoreGloria Arieira’s Yoga sutras of Patañjali
“The Yoga Sutras?” I laughed, “Why read them when there is the Bhagavadgita?” I had never imagined I would translate them the way I had done for the Gita.
Read MoreMy quarantine book
Neither Tolstoy’s War and Peace nor James Joyce’s Ulysses would be my quarantine book. I immediately remembered the story of how a young boy found love in the concentration camp of Terezín.
Read MoreThe Veda and Voltaire
Does everything really happen for the best? I snarl, as Voltaire most probably did, challenging Leibniz with comedy and wisdom amid a world of atrocities.
Read MoreThe Bhagavadgita | e-book
It is with great pleasure I announce the e-book version of my translation of the Bhagavadgita by Padma Shri award-winning author and Vedanta teacher, Gloria Arieira
Read MoreBook review: Amitav Ghosh’s latest, ‘Gun Island’
The master does it again: but this time, it is not only a story of migration, it is a story of why and how there are migrations.
Read MoreBook review: Albert Camus’s “L’Etranger”
The Outsider? The Foreigner? The Stranger? One would expect more consensus regarding the translation of the title work of a Nobel prize-winning author. However, just the title of Albert Camus’s 1942 classic novel, L’Etranger, provokes reflection, as does every page of his terse prose
Read MoreBook review: “The Maze” by Panos Karnezis
More than its reviews, it was the novel’s setting just after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) — in which a remaining and lost Greek regiment wandered the deserts of Anatolia to find the sea — that sparked my curiosity to read Panos Karnezis’s, The Maze. Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Story are […]
Read MoreBook review: “Ema, the Captive” by César Aira
Argentina, 1800s. A nubile captive, together with her infant child, are government prisoners, taken on long caravan as part of the supplies needed at the military outpost of a sinister colonial world deprived of women. It is just the beginning of the adventurous captivity of Ema, a “white” woman of unknown origins who is bartered […]
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