Sacred Trash
Amitav GhoshSacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, Schocken, New York, 2011. The story of the Cairo Geniza – that…
Current Reading: Gabriella De Ferrari’s ‘Gringa Latina’
As a schoolboy I was fascinated by the Atacama desert, partly because of the music of the name, and partly because my geography textbook declared it to be the driest…
‘Em and The Big Hoom’ by Jerry Pinto
Em and the Big Hoom (unpublished ms) by Jerry Pinto Having followed Jerry Pinto’s work for many years I’ve long believed that he would one day produce a great book.…