For a quarter of a century, Amitav Ghosh has explored the profound questions about humanity. NPR's Scott Simon talks with him about "Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment." ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President looming, I ask Amitav Ghosh what he thinks of Trump's desire to acquire Greenland and exert greater control over the Panama Canal. There are ...

Amitav Ghosh, the acclaimed Indian-born novelist, is well-known for exploring themes of culture, power and politics in his works of historical fiction set in Asia. His insightful new non-fiction, The ...

THE GLASS PALACE. By Amitav Ghosh. Random House, $25.95. THE first Glass Palace we discover in Amitav Ghosh's sprawling historical novel by that name is the vast central hall of the royal palace in ...

Amitav Ghosh’s book Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, shortlisted for the British Academy Prize 2024 weaves together the horticultural, social, and political economy of the colonial opium ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh will deliver the Western Michigan University Center for the Study of Ethics in Society’s 2022 Winnie Veenstra Peace Lecture on Tuesday, April 12. The ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh takes us into the heart of the 19th century opium trade, when the West fed addiction in China. Amitav Ghosh (amitavghosh.com) Go back almost two centuries, and the global drug ...

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first ...

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 ...

Trying to decrease your carbon footprint can be complicated. You use metal straws, recycle your paper, and bring your own grocery bags to the store, but everything you buy is part of a supply chain ...