Pranavi Sharma
Articles
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Jan 16, 2025 |
hindustantimes.com | Pranavi Sharma
The question is not merely how we live but how we are seen living. Ayşegül Savaş has built a career on scrutinizing the complexities of belonging and displacement. Born in Istanbul and raised across cities like Adana, Ankara, London, and Copenhagen before landing in the US for college, Savaş’s life has been fairly nomadic.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
thehindu.com | Pranavi Sharma
What does it mean to fail oneself? Can failure ever be sublime? Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize this year, steps into the porous boundary between history and the now. It takes us to the late 20th century and positions the reader in Essex, that eternal lodestar of Perry’s imagination. Enlightenment is a taxonomy of love, but not in the banal sense. Love here is deconstructed, reassembled, interrogated.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
thehindu.com | Pranavi Sharma
Writer and filmmaker Miranda July recounts watching Steven Soderbergh’s landmark indie movie Sex, Lies, and Videotape as a teenager with her parents, in The Criterion Collection magazine’s ‘Under the Influence’. For her, the film stood out for its lack of judgement toward its characters. She states, “Even as a child, I had an inkling that marriage was complicated... The film resonated with me because it presented sex and vulnerability without shame.
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Nov 4, 2024 |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta |Anil Menon |Pranavi Sharma |Sharmistha Jha
“I love the fact that a book can be like a living thing,” said one of the judges for the Booker Prize 2024, as they were narrowing down the titles for this year’s shortlist from the longlist of 13 books. Artist and writer Edmund de Waal, head of the prize jury, said the list included “books that navigate what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return”, with settings ranging from World War I battlefields to America’s Deep South in the 19th century to the International Space Station.
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Oct 26, 2024 |
scroll.in | Pranavi Sharma
Anne Michaels is certainly not a case of the poet “best met in poems,” for that would be a hasty verdict. The world seems to be callously divided over her newly Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Held. Some have gone so far as to reprimand her for failing to comply with an author's “responsibility” to engage their readers. The case in point is not as simplistic as modern readers’ aversion to abstraction.
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