The Middle Stage

The Middle Stage wishes all its readers a happy new year and a happy new decade. (It had some good times in the last one). Here are some thi...

Two imagined voices suddenly pipe up midway through The Flaming Feet , the Kannada intellectual DR Nagaraj’s book of essays on the history ...

I always like chatting with the auto-rickshaw drivers of Bombay. Over the course of this year I decided to pursue these conversations in a s...

The greatest pleasure of my ten weeks at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa has been the chance to befriend a host...

I'm reading in New York this Thursday at Book Thug Nation , a bookstore in Brooklyn. It would be lovely to see you.

The new issue of the literary journal World Literature Today is devoted to modern Indian writing, and I was pleased to find my novel Arzee ...

I will be speaking tomorrow afternoon at the Henry Luce Hall at Yale University on the subject "Place and the Making of Literature...

A slightly different version of this piece appeared last weekend in The National . In José Saramago's novella The Tale of the Unkno...

This is the text of a lecture (or a short story) I presented yesterday at the Iowa City Public Library as a response, along with some other...

I'm in San Francisco! This Thursday, the 30th of September, I'm going to be reading here at The Book Passage from my anthology Indi...