RAJI WRITES

Read about the runaway bestseller The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Megha Majumdar's unflinching novel A Guardian and A Thief, The Odyssey and its many incarnations, and Spiderman! Books The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans. I heard of this book by word of mouth, from several readers. In the words of Ann Patchett, “The only thing that sells a book is one person reads it and tells two others to read it. And that’s what she’s getting.” Evans’ debut novel has become a bestsel

Short Takes on two plays, a few Oscar-nominated movies, and an irresistible cake! Theater A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams) I watched a bare bones production (by design) of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire at ACT-SF’s Toni Rembe theater. I had last watched Streetcar as an opera, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. My friend Sunita, her mother Lulu and I managed to snag $10 tickets, standing room only at the

"Seeing someone who looks like me–with my hair, skin tone, and culture–as a multi-dimensional, flawed, beautiful, badass character rather...

"Viceroy’s House" begins with a sunset in Delhi in 1947. After three centuries in India the British have announced that they are leaving....