Amitav Ghosh, Author. Houghton Mifflin $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-618-32997-7 A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual ...

Amitav Ghosh, whose book “Gun Island” is set in an ecologically unstable world, wants literature to explore the environment as much as it does other crises. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta How do you ...

The question, posed by author and activist Amitav Ghosh to a crowd of 200 at Georgetown University on March 30, characterizes the writer’s desire to share stories about the environment that return ...

Born in Calcutta, and raised between India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Amitav Ghosh has published several works of fiction as well as non-fiction and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at ...

It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist. The milky sap of the poppy flower has taken so many forms across so many centuries that its allure feels like a trap, a chasing of ...

A new book asks, among many provocative questions, is the elevation of human above all other species, indeed above the Earth itself, responsible for many of Earth's problems? Amitav Ghosh, the Indian ...

Can climate change and all its attendant woes — food shortages, refugee crises, infrastructure collapse, economic devastation — become the stuff of literary fiction? Writer Amitav Ghosh thinks it ...

As talks at the Glasgow U.N. climate summit accelerate, we look at how the roots of the climate crisis date back to Western colonialism with award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, who examines the ...

So here’s the thing about Amitav — he is probably amongst the most unsociable people you will meet. He’s gruff, even growly.

Ghosh demonstrates his knowledge of science and local legends as well as reports on the harsh realities that make life precarious in the Sundarbans.(iStockphoto) All these works, written over two ...

Ghosh, long chronicler of empire, trade, and migration, now focuses on the urgent unravelling of the natural world and its moral legacy for the future. Photo: AFP Indian writer Amitav Ghosh has long ...