S. Shankar

S. Shankar is author of the novel A Map of Where I Live (Heinemann) and the forthcoming volume of criticism Textual Traffic: Colonialism, Modernity and the Economy of the Text (SUNY).

Articles

Naipaul Writes Home (Non-fiction)

Many years ago, when I was about the age that V.S. Naipaul was when he departed Trinidad for England, I would borrow books by him from the library of an erstwhile colonial club in Kuala Lumpur.

S. Shankar

How America Became a Third World Country
The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
Why Prosecuting Ariel Castro for Murder Won’t Prevent Violence Against Pregnant Women
Rahm Emanuel's Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago's Angry Birds
The First Couple’s Post-Racial Bootstraps Myth

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