Jabberwock

A few days ago I got my copy of a book I’m super-excited about – my old friend Shamya Dasgupta’s massive, beautiful-looking tribute to Ritwi...

When I saw that Clayton Rawson’s 1938 novel Death from a Top Hat – one of the best-regarded locked-room mysteries of its time – was availab...

Most serious horror-film buffs will be familiar with the swimming-pool scene from the 1942 film Cat People – famous for its use of the powe...

Continuing with capsule reviews of Golden Age crime fiction. Yesterday I finished Christianna Brand’s 1944 military-hospital mystery Green f...

“Reader’s block” is something that has afflicted me a lot in recent years – some of it having to do with guilt about reading other things wh...

You might think that as a non-believer I’d be somewhat irritated by GK Chesterton’s Father Brown stories – or put off by the little priest-d...

I have got back to reading John Dickson Carr mysteries from what is generally regarded his peak phase (mid-1930s to mid-40s) – a few of thes...

[Wrote a version of this piece for Mint Lounge, as part of a tribute to Sholay on its 50th anniversary. Have written about the film before, ...

So noir yet so far: my friend Tipu Purkayastha and I will be in conversation with the writer and film scholar Imogen Sara Smith on July 27 ...

Putting up a few short posts about books I have enjoyed in the past year, which I have mentioned elsewhere but not here. One of them is Rud...

From earlier this month… my dear friend (and fabulous writer and poet and fellow mythology buff and cinephile and all-round inspiration) Kar...

I re-watched Silence of the Lambs a few weeks ago and had a few thoughts about it – including a memory-trigger of my strangely bifurcated f...

[Just a casual little post, of the sort I haven’t been putting here in a long time – these updates end up going on Instagram, or less freque...

[From my Economic Times column] --------------- An important trope of the Hindi cinema I cherished as a child – the action-oriented, male-ce...