Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

“Boosted!”, my review of Blair Kamin’s Who Is The City For?, is up at the New York Review of Architecture.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 31, 2023

On Books and Publishing

Lyrical Doughnuts or, the “I” in Writing

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 26, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

What Really Happened at Current Affairs?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 27, 2023

“More Mean Girls than Norma Rae.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On J. K. Rowling, Pamela Paul, and the Logic of Virality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 16, 2023

Academia On Books and Publishing

About My Forthcoming Work on “Soft Plagiarism”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 6, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Twitter Is Not Your Writing Life

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 5, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

On Salman Rushdie

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 14, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Writer As Magazine

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 9, 2021

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Accent

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2021

Excerpt: I have very little in this world but my accent, which springs forth unbidden, has often saved me in some very, very sticky situations. That’s life. I use whatever powers I have.

Feminism On Books and Publishing

“Cat Person” Will Never Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 20, 2021

Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world. Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you.