In July 2012 I delivered a paper on Hari Kunzru's latest novel Gods Without Men (Penguin, 2011) at the University of Lincoln's 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English" organised by Dr Siân Adiseshiah and Dr Rupert Hildyard. My paper, "Towards a...

I've become fascinated with literary representation of transmigration (see, for example, my chapter on transmigration in David Mitchell: Critical Essays). One of the most interesting examples of this kind of writing is Caryl Phillips’ Crossing the River (Bloomsbury, 1993),...