Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.