A Dead Hand: A Non-Review | Human Critics

Paul Theroux has another book out. I believe it's called A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta. I haven't read it and I know next to nothing about it, but I'm going. ... Hotel Honolulu, for instance, should have been a rambling, unfocused mess, but it somehow turned into a bafflingly entertaining treatise on imperialism and east/west relations, sort of a postcolonial Decameron. In the hands of a lesser writer it would have been an illiterate trainwreck. ...