Clea: Lawrence Durrell
Amitav GhoshMay 29, 1980 Finished reading ‘Clea’ yesterday. Was more or less in tears at the end of it. The books get better and better. I think…
A Roman Feast
Marco d'Eramo is a prominent Italian writer and journalist. He writes for Il Manifesto, which is a left-wing journal, but Marco is a born contrarian and…
A True Roman
On November 5 I received this message: Dear mr. Ghosh, My name is Anadi Mishra, I’m a Phd Researcher at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. As you…
Debt and Democracy in Italy
I met Andrea Baranes at the Teatro Valle in Rome: he is closely associated with the group that has occupied the theatre for the last…
A Roman Occupation
On June 14 this year a group of actors, stage-workers, writers and artists took over one of Europe’s most famous theatres: the Teatro Valle in Rome. …
Piazza of the Five Moons
Anna Nadotti has translated my books and articles into Italian since 1988 ('The Shadow Lines' was the first). She is a marvelous translator , one of…
Roman celebrations
On Wednesday night celebrations broke out as a blizzard of text messages blew through Rome's restaurants announcing Silvio Berlusconi's imminent departure. But the celebrations were…
Child abducted from tsunami refugee camp
Traveling to the Andamans after the 2004 tsunami I saw sights and heard stories that were almost unbearably painful (some of them are recounted in the article I wrote…
More on Commissioner Lin’s descendants
I met Celia Liu, a descendant of Commissioner Lin, at a reading in Brooklyn (see my post of October 28). She recently sent me the following message. …
tribute to the late Shrilal Shukla
Here is a link to a fine tribute to the late Shrilal Shukla by Amitabha Bagchi. Shrilalji was a great writer and a delightful man: I only met…