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Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effort, a collection of short stories titled Interpreter of...

[Graph Not Transcribed ] JHUMPA LAHIRI HOUGHTON MIFFLIN REVIEW BY IRENE D'SOUZA Every once in a while there appears a new work of fiction with the power to remind us why we read in the first place. With this,...

When Marx wrote, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it," he was not only taking a swipe at philosophers. He was slighting interpretation itself, as if thinking were an idle affair compared to...

Lights! Camera! Activism! A coterie of Brooklyn celebrities has aligned itself against Bruce Ratner's plan for a Nets stadium and surrounding development in Prospect Heights. The group includes Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, Peter Galassi,...

In 2000, the Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with The Interpreter of Maladies, making her the first South Asian—and, at 33, among the youngest of any ethnicity—to be named in that category. She appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, wearing crimson,...

An analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of stories that trace the unique journey of families from India who establish themselves in America. The book conveys the emotional roller coaster these people experience from coming to America and being labeled as foreigners. It also shows how these people gain true satisfaction from their experiencing Indian culture in America, rather than from assimilating to the American culture.