When I started doing book reviews on this blog, I made two promises to myself: 1) I would only write positive reviews. This isn’t because I love every book I read–far from it–but because I am averse to publicly lambasting other people’s writing. I decided that, if I don’t like something I’ve read, I simply… Continue reading A Bitingly Insightful Novel from India: Upamanyu Chatterjee’s "English, August"