From The Hindu, one of the finest prose stylists of our times, Ved Mehta introduced India to Americans though India has not forgiven him for telling the truth as he saw it. A review of I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performance Between Cultures by Alina Tryano. The laziness of magical realism: At its best, magical realism still sees the "non-European" through paradigms created by Europe. At its worst, it becomes internally inconsistent, a symptom of a larger failure to see the structures that make the world unequal and unstable. So many writers come to France to write, and so many of them make la merde out of their careers, but British author Stephen Clarke is the only one I know of who has made a career out of la merde

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