Pāṇini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow’s Hoofprint Vikram Chandra Academia, Art & Literature, Books I should begin with a disclaimer: I am not a Sanskritist. I took a couple of years of compulsory Sanskrit in middle school, was bored witless by the rote memorization of verb conjugations and by the anodyne...
The “Inevitable Sadness” of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction Cynthia Wong Arts & Culture, Books On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a back table at a bustling cafe in London for an interview. As Ishiguro answered my questions, he explained how he...
Recommended Summer Solstice Readings from Hippo Hippo Reads Staff Arts & Culture, Books Happy summer solstice, Hippo readers! What better way to celebrate our slide into the sticky days of midsummer by cracking open a new book? Here's what our staff and contributors are currently reading—and...
Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation David Crystal Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Books “Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories,” writes David Crystal in his new book, Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation (Profile Books). He then fills the pages with the...
