Poor Reading, Weak Theory: An Excerpt from “The Amateur”
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Saikat Majumdar’s forthcoming work includes a novella, The Remains of the Body, and The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony, a book of criticism. He wrote a column for LARB, Another Look at India’s Books, from 2020 to 2022. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Firebird/Play House (2015, 2017) and The Scent of God (2019); a book of criticism, Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (2013); and a collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur (2019).
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
Saikat Majumdar reviews NYRB Classics’ rerelease of Amit Chaudhuri’s first three books.
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
Saikat Majumdar ponders whether the American creative writing model truly fits the needs of Indian students.
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.
In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention.