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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d

New book review:

“Don’t stop looking” — on Julian Barnes’ last novel, Departure(s):

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“Don’t stop looking”: Julian Barnes’ Departure(s)

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that “black …

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

Goa — today @ 5 30 PM.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Julian Barnes’ last novel: quietly, softly devastating, of living and dying in the post-tragic age.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4d

Re-reading project: one every month for the next three years. Very slowly and very intentionally.

First up: Coriolanus.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 5d

New book review:

“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home

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“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home

In 1980s Chile, a young boy grows up in a Santiago suburb, the son of a carefully apolitical pair of parents. One day, his neighbour Raul’s niece – Claudia – recruits him to perfo…

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

What a strange, sad — and brilliant — book.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

Submissions for Volume 2 of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF are open until the end of the month.

Stories are reviewed blind, and we pay for accepted works.

Detailed below, and the link to submit your work. 👇

Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Submissions!

We are accepting submissions for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.

We look forward to reading your stories!

A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Submissions!

We are accepting submissions for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.

We look forward to reading your stories!

A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 9d

As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.

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feat. what makes KLF and the Kochi Biennale special, books about revolutions and revolutionaries, rediscovering the classics, and more.

Words for Worlds - Issue 114

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 9d

Via Alberto Toscano, discovered this fascinating little book about the (anti-)political character of Greek tragedy. A short review later this evening in today’s newsletter.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 10d

Enjoyed reading the Locus Recommended Reading List, as always.

A tad disappointed that Between Worlds didn’t make the cut in the Anthologies category, as this has been one of the very few magazines that’s always been welcoming to non-US/UK published books, but taste is subjective, and we move.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 15d

Experiencing the weird at the Kochi Biennale.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 15d

Isn’t it!

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16d

They are three different lenses towards understanding - and critiquing - the Indian Constitution.

Out next month; pre-order here:

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16d

The Transformative Constitution examines the radical potential of a judicial “contrapuntal canon.”

Unsealed Covers looks at the last decade of the Court and the Constitution.

Conversations with Power interrogates the Constitution’s deep centralising impulses. [2/3]

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16d

This Jan 26, HarperCollins India is making available in a single box set the three books: The Transformative Constitution, Unsealed Covers, and The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Power.

Pre-order link in thread below. 👇🏼 [1/3]

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16d

Spending this week working on the sequel to The Fifth Inflection here.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16d

Read this rather strange - and patchy - book, which is part historical fiction and part contemporary existentialist despair. The first bit is very well done, the second was extremely annoying. Check it out if you’re Gramsci or Italian history-curious, otherwise give it a miss.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 19d

Pick up some books at the Kerala Literature Festival!

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 20d

Just finished, perhaps the best book on the Arab Spring that I’ve read. Inter alia, introduced me to the concept of “refolutions”’: powerful revolutionary movements unleashed on the streets that ended up pushing for reform in and through the institutions of the incumbent states.”

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 21d

A World Book Fair find: this biography in fragments about one of the 20th century’s most remarkable figures, and a window into the Spanish revolution through his brief, incandescent life. Brilliant.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23d

As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23d

It’s the third Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.

feat. memories of the World Book Fair, the new Victor Serge biography, Blossom Bookshop turns 24, re-reading Roger Zelazny, and more.

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Words for Worlds - Issue 113

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 25d

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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 25d

Got my copy of 'Between Worlds,' an Indian SF anthology, and I'm super excited to get into it. @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Edited it.

Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 25d

Got my copy of 'Between Worlds,' an Indian SF anthology, and I'm super excited to get into it. @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Edited it.

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 25d

Reading Asef Bayat’s Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, which has this remarkable description of the 1979 Iranian Revolution: