The Irish Times, March 19, 2011 On Thursday the Canadian poet Anne Carson speaks at the Poetry Now festival. She tells PARUL SEHGAL about her elegy in verse for her late sibling, Michael ‘So, Pinhead, d’you attain wisdom yet?” In 1979 Anne Carson’s brother fled Canada to escape being arrested for dealing drugs. For 22 yearsContinue reading “Anne Carson: Evoking the Starry Lad”
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Guest Post: Balakian Award Winner Parul Sehgal Accepts
(From Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle) by Parul Sehgal | Mar-15-2011 This year’s Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, to Parul Sehgal, whose remarks are here: I’m a bit overwhelmed. And I must confess that I’m wearing a sari not so much to signal ethnic pride than to conceal the knockingContinue reading “Guest Post: Balakian Award Winner Parul Sehgal Accepts”
Scott McLemee on Balakian Winner Parul Sehgal
(From Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle) by Scott McLemee | Mar-15-2011 Balakian award winner Scott McLemee, for three years chair of the Balakian committee, welcomes the newest Balakian honoree, Parul Sehgal: Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Nona Balakian, the founding member of the National Book Critics CircleContinue reading “Scott McLemee on Balakian Winner Parul Sehgal”
A critical look at criticism with Parul Sehgal, SOA ’10
By Allison Malecha (from the Columbia Spectator, 2/14/2010) Words on someone who writes words on words—this is the result of a profile on a book critic. Parul Sehgal, Columbia University School of the Arts ’10, is the Nonfiction and Audio Reviews Editor for Publishers Weekly, a regular contributor to Time Out New York and O Magazine,Continue reading “A critical look at criticism with Parul Sehgal, SOA ’10”
Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal
(From Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle) On Saturday, the NBCC announced that this year’s recipient of the annual Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing was Parul Sehgal. Here, in his regular column at Insidehighered.com, NBCC board member Scott McLemee speaks with Sehgal–Ed. Nona Balakian was an editor at The New York TimesContinue reading “Scott McLemee Interviews Balakian Recipient Parul Sehgal”
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
By Susie Linfield (University of Chicago) Parul Sehgal, Bookforum, December 2010 The girl in the photograph wears her black hair tucked behind her ears. Her part is slightly crooked, and there is a small mole low on her throat, right above the top button of her blouse. She might be anywhere between five and ten yearsContinue reading “The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence”
Go East, Young Man
Parul Sehgal, Publishers Weekly, Dec. 6, 2010 It’s been a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in pursuit of his fortune travels West. So in 2008, when Anand Giridharadas, writer of the “Currents” column for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times online, observed in the Times that not only were India’s best and brightest increasingly likelyContinue reading “Go East, Young Man”
Harlem Revisited: PW Talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
By Parul Sehgal, Publishers Weekly, Dec 06, 2010 In Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Texas transplant and journalist Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts tracks the storied neighborhood in history, literature, and daily life. What was it like living in a place and writing about it at the same time? It was a real conundrum. I’dContinue reading “Harlem Revisited: PW Talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts”
Saul Bellow: Letters
Edited by Benjamin Taylor, Viking, $35 Parul Sehgal, Time Out New York, November 5, 2010 Collected and annotated by Benjamin Taylor, these letters reveal in Saul Bellow a rare consistency: From the first letter in 1932 to the last in 2005, Bellow’s ex-wives accrue, his fortunes rise and fall, but his character, his generosity and obsession withContinue reading “Saul Bellow: Letters”
Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown) Parul Sehgal, Bookforum, November 2010 They called her the Queen of Kings. She built a kingdom into a mighty empire that stretched down the shimmering eastern coastline of the Mediterranean. She married—and murdered—her two younger brothers. She bankrolled Cesar and Antony and bore them both sons. She was worshipped asContinue reading “Cleopatra: A Life”
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