Parul Sehgal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Parul Sehgal

Can't recommend @amiasrinivasan's new book, The Right to Sex (out in Sept.), highly enough https://t.co/VkQErQi9gi

Parul Sehgal

When it comes to watching writers metabolize “this moment,” I was impressed by Megha Majumdar’s novel “A Burning,” on rising extremism in India.

Parul Sehgal

She offers her own decorous, deeply accommodating approach as an alternative model.

Parul Sehgal

It's a book that changes people, it moves them. You have a spiritual experience reading this book... These are scientific essays... There are also meditation on our relationship with the natural world and they draw heavily on Native American teachings handed down from generation to generation.

Parul Sehgal

There is a widespread expectation that beneath silence pulses a story waiting to be told. Suffering must be spoken, we are urged. It has to be coaxed out, in anguished detail, and held in the light. But in these works, where we anticipate testimony, we receive ceremony instead.

Parul Sehgal

In the death-defying “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” she assembles her puns and her false mustaches, readies her troupe, and finds a way to rewrite the most inexorably linear story of all. Moore’s “radiant turbulence” will…beckon. You have to stick around for the show.