Arundhati Roy's Critical Reads
Since the release of her award-winning debut novel, The God of Small Things, twenty years ago, Arundhati Roy has focused most of her efforts on political activism and nonfiction works. In advance of her appearance at the the Chicago Humanities Festival next Friday the 23rd, we bring you a short selection of her essays, interviews, and books. Take a peek!
Essays online
My Seditious Heart (Caravan Magazine)
The Monster in the Mirror (The Guardian)
The Day of the Jackals (Countercurrents)
How Deep Shall We Dig? (The Hindu)
We Call This Progress (Guernica)
Confronting Empire (Life After Capitalism World Social Forum speech)
Interviews & profiles
Arundhati Roy, the Not-So Reluctant Renegade (New York Times)
Arundhati Roy on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Penguin)
Interview with Arundhati Roy (The Progressive)
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From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India...
Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.--Time Magazine
Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'--and shows...
