Amit Chaudhuri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Author, A Strange and Sublime Address, Sojourn; critic; singer, Indian classical tradition; composer:This Is Not Fusion, Found Music

Good Vibrations: A Children's Picture Book
Brian Wilson
‘Good Vibrations’, incorporating ragas Kalavati and Abhogi - an attempt, through discrete rhythmic movements, to rework not only the song but what Brian Wilson called the idea of a ‘pop symphony’: https://t.co/NVnh05T7JY From the King’s Place concert: album release on Friday.
Hardcover, 2020
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Sojourn
Charles Meyers
This excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9
Paperback, 2019
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Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
Amit Chaudhuri
Wonderful essay on Finding the Raga in @prospect_uk by @ivanhewett, music critic of the Daily Telegraph: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-surprising-story-of-indian-classical-music Ivan’s reviewed me twice before - my essays in Clearing a Space, and a performance of mine at the Brecon Jazz Festival. Great to have his response here
Hardcover, 2008
$111.90$86.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Concert
Lindsay Anderson
(producer of Lindsay Anderson's Look Back in Anger, Derek Jarman's The Tempest; director in his own right) and incorporated into an essay-film of the same name. Besides the concert, it includes interviews, memories, and ruminations.
Paperback, 2018
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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears
Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Choosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5
Paperback, 2021
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Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Glendinning
Simon Glendinning’s talk at the 2017 ‘Literary Activism’ symposium on Reassessments: https://t.co/zJk41Gthx2 A reflection - via Marx and Derrida, in relation to Eurocentricism - on forms of self-critique that free us up to reassess what’s valuable in other cultures and our own.
Paperback, 2011
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Grand Central Station: The History of New York City's Famous Railroad Terminal
Charles River
This excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9
Paperback, 2015
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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Amit Chaudhuri
A conversation with the Hindustan Time’s Chintan Modi, in which we talked about Finding the Raga and North Indian classical music, but also about Paris and DH Lawrence: https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/interview-amit-chaudhuri-author-finding-the-raga-which-way-you-are-going-to-turn-is-unknown-to-you-101658501003996.html @htTweets @chintanwriting
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
Enzo Traverso
Choosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5
Hardcover, 2017
$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot
I’ve started writing a column for @nplusonemag called Footnotes, to tease out cultural history, personal memory, and meaning from a word, phrase, or line. In the first, I’m looking at ‘human kind cannot bear very much reality’ from Eliot’s Four Quartets: https://t.co/kig8Vn4zlx
Paperback, 2023
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