Like the recent film Lost in Translation , Desai's new novel tells of an American adrift in a foreign culture that remains frustratingly inscrutable. Eric is a New England–born graduate student in ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Former President Barack Obama has unveiled his much-anticipated 2025 summer reading list, a blend of biography, politics, and fiction, and this year’s selection carries a luminous ...

Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Her mother, Anita, has been short-listed for the prize three times. Her... Kiran and Anita Desai, Generations of Writing ...

Anita Desai is a writer of German and Indian origin whose previous work seems heavily influenced by her ancestry. “The Zig Zag Way,” however, is a clear departure because its roots find soil in ...

Bonita, a young woman from India, sits in a park in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, when a stranger approaches to say that she looks just like her mother, whom she calls Rosarita. The woman says they ...