Book Reviews

Seagull Books : Gold Sand, Gold Water by Nalini Bera

Our Elsewheres: Book Excerpt From Gold Sand, Gold Water By Nalini Bera

Seagull Books : Chapal Rani by Sandip Roy

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt From Chapal Rani, The Last Queen Of Bengal, By Sandip Roy

| Courtesy: Vadehra Art Gallery : City Memory, Dreams, Desire, Statues And Ghosts Return Of Hiuen Tsang Artwork by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Geography Of Waiting

BY Geet Chaturvedi

| Photo: IMAGO

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Labour Of Historical Fiction

BY Aanchal Malhotra

| Photo: Courtesy of the authors

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Home ...A Conversation

BY Donskobar Junisha Khongwir

| Courtesy: Sakshi Gallery : Other Ways of Seeing Untitled artwork by Sujith S.N.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The World And The Word

BY Geetanjali Shree

| Photos: Sarojini Lewis : Real/Memory: These three photographs show village Nindaur in Ara district of Bihar and are connected to my own imagination of what this village would look like.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Tracing The Memory Of Migration

BY Sarojini Lewis

Cover of 'Self-Portrait in the Studio'

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt From Giorgio Agamben's 'Self-Portrait In The Studio'

BY Giorgio Agamben

Cover of Romila Thapar's 'Just Being'

Our Elsewheres: 'Just Being', The Past Shaping The Present And The Future

BY Romila Thapar

The Dreaming Chamber An artwork by Ruchi Bakshi Sharma

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Life After Pralaya: Notes From Space Station 21B

BY Yousuf Saeed

| Courtesy: Tao art Gallery : Red by the Sea Artwork by Riyas Komu

Outlook Anniversary Issue: A Dot In Soot

BY Aakriti Kuntal

(Left) The Cave Inside (right) Leaf Leaves Artworks by Sudarshan Shetty

Outlook Anniversary Issue: A Country Penned By Writers

BY Pravin Kumar

Cover of 'In The Forest Of Metropoles'

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt From Karl-Markus Gauß’s In The Forest Of Metropoles

BY Karl-Markus Gauß

File photo : The book says: "The young people here have been born here or are housed here after witnessing the destruction or occupation of their homes. There are camps like this all over the West Bank."

Our Elsewheres: Beyond The Wall, Writing A Path Through Palestine

Sound on my Skin Artwork by Shilpa Gupta : It is through these confrontations that the character’s internal reality is finally stripped bare, revealing an inner truth that makes the work feel both resonant and contemporary.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Artifice Of Reality

BY Vivek Shanbhag

Seagull Books : Alexander Kluge | Air Raid

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from Alexander Kluge's 'Air Raid'

BY Alexander Kluge

Seagull Books : An Old Carriage with Curtains

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from An Old Carriage With Curtains

BY Ghassan Zaqtan

Altinho Cross Artwork by Govit Morajkar

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Subterranean Shores of Goa

BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar

(Un)promised Installation shots by Vibha Galhotra

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The City That Remembered Us

BY Vibha Galhotra

| Photo: Aradhana Seth : Nikhil Chopra

Outlook Anniversary Issue: House Of Shared Contemplations

BY Chinki Sinha

Landscape is Not Always Beautiful: Landscape is an Architecture Artworks from the series by Samit Das

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Known And Unknown Worlds Beyond The Visible

A high-wire Act In Germany: Excerpt From Max Frisch| Sketchbook 1946–1949

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from Max Frisch's 'Sketchbook 1946–1949'

Well-Kept Ruins | Hélène Cixous | Seagull Books | 156 pages | Rs 699

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Well-Kept Ruins of Memory And Time

BY Hélène Cixous

| Courtesy: Experimenter : The Subterranean II, 2024 Artwork by Julien Segard

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Between Sky Above, Earth Below

BY Perumal Murugan

| Courtesy: Champatree Art Gallery : Blessed Land Artwork by Samir Mohanty

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Memory Of Fields

BY Janice Pariat

If Malgudi is a motif, rather than ask ‘what is Malgudi’, we may perhaps better understand it as a literary reality and ask ‘how is Malgudi built’.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: How R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Normalises Caste Of Words

BY Antony Arul Valan

Snake and other stories | Premendra Mitra | Seagull Fiction |
133 pages | 1999

Outlook Anniverary Issue: Excerpt from Premendra Mitra's 'Discovering Telenapota'

BY Premendra Mitra

Absolute Jafar | Sarnath Banerjee | Harper Collins | 272 pages | Rs 799

Outlook Anniversary Issue: A Day In The Life Of Jafar

BY Sarnath Banerjee

Old Moon Revolution Artwork by Ruchi Bakshi Sharma : A performer can take hours to move an imaginary mountain on stage; can show how a river originates atop some far mountain, then widens in grith as it comes toward you, then thins as it travels off into the distance.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Eyes That Build Worlds

BY Tishani Doshi

Amitava Kumar Talks About Trains

Video Podcast | Amitava Kumar On Indian Trains, Writing & Memory | Our Lovely Friends

BY Chinki Sinha

Dreaming a Paradise | Chitvan Gill | Seagull Books | 186 pages | Rs 599

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Dreaming A Paradise

BY Chitvan Gill

Is She at Home? Artworkk by Aradhana Seth

Because We Live In This World And No Other

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