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Swamiji, a Hindu holy man, is the central character of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels. He reclines in a deck chair in his modern apartment in western India, telling subtle and entertaining folk narratives to his assorted gatherings. Among the listeners is Kirin Narayan, who knew Swamiji when she was a child in India and who has returned from America as an anthropologist. In her book Narayan builds on Swamiji's tales and his audiences' interpretations to ask why religious teachings the world over are so often couched in stories.

For centuries, religious teachers from many...

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In"Alive in the Writing" an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers, and his venture into nonfiction through his book"Sakhalin Island." By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling conditions of the...

In the cold months of 1865, young Mary Frere and her father, Bartle Frere, British governor of Bombay, set out in a caravan across the Deccan province of south central India. During their journey Mary transcribed 24 popular Hindu folktales told to her by her nursemaid. That collection of tales, which she published as Old Deccan Days, not only became the first Indian folklore collection in English, it established a new genre of writing about British India.

These marvelously imaginative tales from the Indian oral tradition are peopled with beautiful, smart, outspoken women; restless,...

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer but he wrote more than just plays and stories. InAlive in the Writing an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis anthropologist and novelist Kirin Narayan introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers, and his venture into nonfiction through his bookSakhalin Island. By closely attending to the people who lived under the appalling...