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Curry proves itself to be a smart text, one that shows us the link between who we are and what we eat is never as straightforward as it may first appear. --The Walrus Curry is a challenging, but refreshing take on the politics involved in our reading and choices, and one that reminds us of the messy ambiguity of racial identity, particularly in diasporic communities. Ruthnum's mixing of personal history and vast reading experience make it valuable contribution to discussions of race in writing and popular culture. --Hamilton Review of Books Curry is an engaging and insightful long-form essay that connects the dots between the popular dish and how it functions as shorthand for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social perception of the South Asian diaspora. --CBC Books Curry, which reads more like a conversation than a hardcore critique, introduces Ruthnum's philosophical and humorous side. --Metro News Always engaging and sometimes funny, [Ruthnum is] most fierce when talking about currybooks ... --NOW Magazine Ruthnum picks apart Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Daniyal Mueenudin, Shoba Narayan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with a thoughtful ambivalence that exhibits an admirable intellectual honesty ...It's fun to watch him think. --The Toronto Star Ruthnum's provocative intellectual journey in Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race explores this colonial endpoint, tracing the complex roots of curry as well as its diasporic colonization of the West in a series of interconnected essays that are as deliciously pleasant in narrative style as they are provocatively piquant in theoretical debate. --Pop Matters Spot on, scathing, and often humorous, Ruthbum's prose has a strong sense of voice that is unlike anything produced lately. --Quill & Quire

Ruthnum picks apart Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Daniyal Mueenudin, Shoba Narayan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with a thoughtful ambivalence that exhibits an admirable intellectual honesty ...It's fun to watch him think. - The Toronto Star Spot on, scathing, and often humorous, Ruthbum's prose has a strong sense of voice that is unlike anything produced lately. - Quill & Quire Ruthnum's provocative intellectual journey in Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race explores this colonial endpoint, tracing the complex roots of curry as well as its diasporic colonization of the West in a series of interconnected essays that are as deliciously pleasant in narrative style as they are provocatively piquant in theoretical debate. - Pop Matters Curry, which reads more like a conversation than a hardcore critique, introduces Ruthnum's philosophical and humorous side. - Metro News Curry is an engaging and insightful long-form essay that connects the dots between the popular dish and how it functions as shorthand for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social perception of the South Asian diaspora. - CBC Books Curry proves itself to be a smart text, one that shows us the link between who we are and what we eat is never as straightforward as it may first appear. - The Walrus Always engaging and sometimes funny, [Ruthnum is] most fierce when talking about currybooks ... - NOW Magazine Curry is a challenging, but refreshing take on the politics involved in our reading and choices, and one that reminds us of the messy ambiguity of racial identity, particularly in diasporic communities. Ruthnum's mixing of personal history and vast reading experience make it valuable contribution to discussions of race in writing and popular culture. - Hamilton Review of Books

"""Curry proves itself to be a smart text, one that shows us the link between who we are and what we eat is never as straightforward as it may first appear."" --The Walrus ""Curry is a challenging, but refreshing take on the politics involved in our reading and choices, and one that reminds us of the messy ambiguity of racial identity, particularly in diasporic communities. Ruthnum's mixing of personal history and vast reading experience make it valuable contribution to discussions of race in writing and popular culture."" --Hamilton Review of Books ""Curry is an engaging and insightful long-form essay that connects the dots between the popular dish and how it functions as shorthand for brown identity in representing the food, culture and social perception of the South Asian diaspora."" --CBC Books ""Curry, which reads more like a conversation than a hardcore critique, introduces Ruthnum's philosophical and humorous side."" --Metro News ""Always engaging and sometimes funny, [Ruthnum is] most fierce when talking about currybooks ..."" --NOW Magazine ""Ruthnum picks apart Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Daniyal Mueenudin, Shoba Narayan, Madhur Jaffrey, and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with a thoughtful ambivalence that exhibits an admirable intellectual honesty ...It's fun to watch him think."" --The Toronto Star ""Ruthnum's provocative intellectual journey in Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race explores this colonial endpoint, tracing the complex roots of curry as well as its diasporic colonization of the West in a series of interconnected essays that are as deliciously pleasant in narrative style as they are provocatively piquant in theoretical debate."" --Pop Matters ""Spot on, scathing, and often humorous, Ruthbum's prose has a strong sense of voice that is unlike anything produced lately."" --Quill & Quire"

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Naben Ruthnum won the Journey Prize for his short fiction, and has been a National Post books columnist and written books and cultural criticism for the Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, and the Walrus. His crime fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Joyland, and his pseudonym Nathan Ripley’s first novel will appear in 2018. His Journey-prize winning story “Cinema Rex” seeded the ideas in Curry: Eating, Reading and Race.

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