Michelle de Kretser’s fiercely truth-seeking narrator both acts within and reports upon the shape-shifting social and ...

Anita Desai, Author, Ann Close, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-394-57229-1 This ninth novel by Desai ( Clear Light of Day ; Games at Twilight ), a professor at Mount Holyoke ...

Anita Desai, after 13 years of silence, has given you, her reader, a rare gift. A new novel, rosarita; a new form, a novel-fragment; a new protagonist, you. If anyone (uncharitably) wondered what ...

Her thesis was on the intersection of postcolonial and feminist issues in the works of Anita Desai. This interest in rhetorical constructs and the composing process has led to a particular fondness ...