J.B. Spins

They made the classy commercial, until they got a little too commercial. Nevertheless, their names remain synonymous with upscale literary c...

Alas, Tony Buckingham is on the wrong side of both a generational divide and a cultural divide. There was a time when Indian audiences fl...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the Booker Prize for her novel of two distantly related English women who come to India under very different cir...

For most historians, Indira Gandhi’s legacy is decidedly mixed. She clearly favored the Soviets as a not-so Non-Aligned Nation and effect...

Even though E.M. Forster’s twice-revised posthumous novel of the love that dare not speak its name was not published until after his deat...

The world is not exactly clamoring for a biography of Uruguay’s literary one-hit wonder, Jules Gund. Yet, in the publish-or-perish world of ...