Known Turf

 A video review by Sayari for The Comeback  on Scroll 's   video channel:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cqC3o4_sY-A

Veda Pahurkar writes about The Comeback in the Asian Age: ' What begins as a story of friendship slowly reveals deeper layers of rivalr...

'Annie Zaidi’s The Comeback is about one man’s journey from self-absorption to consideration for others staged as an ode to theatre as ...

A new-ish review of my book  Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation  in Cha journal: 'The plurality inherent in t...

'Annie Zaidi’s new novel, The Comeback , is a delightful journey into the heart of Indian theatre, with a focus on small-town India......

 A first review for The Comeback in Youth ki Awaaz :  'The entire novel is built on the perceived hierarchy of the performing arts, and...

Was very pleasantly surprised to find some new(er?) reviews of my novel Prelude to a Riot.   One in Countercurrents says: 'Zaidi’s withh...

Is a novel a beautiful thing? What of a novel that is presented as an “outline” for the first draft of a novel that the narrator intends to ...

My review of Tabish Khair's latest collection, Namaste Trump and Other Stories :  The book’s structure is imaginative, if also unusual. ...

Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales (Aleph 2023) is just out. This is a new edition of Known Turf (2010), with a fresh Introduction...

If a government is driven by the need to secure majority mandates, what incentives does it have to secure minority rights? In fact, if all i...

This is a difficult book to review in that it does not adhere to any literary format. It includes poetry, but it is not an anthology. It inc...

Spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the story introduces the reader to women who rejected factory and homestead and immersed th...

I've written a long, critical review of the 'C: A Novel'. A short extract and a link to the full review below: She moves to the ...

"We are reminded that the author’s voice, shining through the telling, illuminating the prose, is what keeps the novel vital and alive....

"Short sketches are meant to be packed with detail, not a word out of place, and this is exactly the vividness that characterises this ...

Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation  is available in the USA, UK and in India, in print as well as in ebook format....

We do the work of creation in the hope that it achieves something in our communities. Something gentle, or fierce, or resplendent. Something...

An interview with the Huffington Post, India about my new novel:  Prelude to a Riot An excerpt published in Scroll.com : Annie Zaidi’s ...

Had reviewed Amitabha Bagchi's beautiful novel 'Half the Night is Gone' last year. Thinking of it again today, with admiration ...