Tuesday, March 30 2010
The Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
Writing a novel about writer’s block is a bit like cleaning a revolver when you’re not entirely incapable of suicide. Paul Theroux’s new book, a clumsy attempt at the mystery novel, goes off in his own hand.
Friday, September 5 2008
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
The ghost that haunts this trip is Theroux's younger self, whom he addresses from time to time.
Tuesday, November 27 2007
The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
In Paul Theroux’s brackish, world-weary new collection, India is inherently unknowable and inevitably dangerous, the result of such knowledge being disappointment at best and, at worst, rape, dissolution, or death.
