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All three are, though labelled “Indo-Brit”, really Pakistani by descent. I mean Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Tariq Ali. I know them all as friends, of varying degrees and intimacy ...
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Hanif Kureishi's new novel takes the form of a confession. Like most guilt-ridden confessions it is elliptical and meandering and takes some time to get to the nub. Our narrator, Jamal Khan, tells us ...
However, enthusiasm and ideas can only count for so much, and the worst of it came from his attempt at a soundtrack album for the Hanif Kureishi novel The Buddha of Suburbia. What goes for icy, edgy ...
Women whom Hanif Kureishi’s protagonists have known include Julia (in The Last Word, 2014), who swears by a beauty regime that involves rubbing the hero’s semen into her forehead; Nina (Intimacy, 1998 ...
A fall rendered British-Pakistani screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist Hanif Kureishi “divorced” from his body. Last January, on X, he posted, “I then experienced what can only be described ...
Hanif Kureishi is credited with "the idea" for The Escort, though French writer-director Michel Blanc must take the actual blame. Daniel Auteuil plays a French drifter in London who's mugged ...