“I think philosophy was my first reading love. It was through philosophy that I entered literature.” In this Mahindra Humanities Center event at Harvard University, Tamil novelist and translator Anuk Arudpragasam speaks with Tara K. Menon about writing while working on his doctorate in philosophy and shares insights about his novels The Story of a Brief Marriage (Flatiron Books, 2016) and A Passage North (Hogarth Press, 2021).
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