Nina Martyris

Freelance Journalist

Books. History. Food. Tea. Etc.

Nina Martyris

Freelance Journalist

Books. History. Food. Tea. Etc.

The Strange Pathos of the Turkey in Madame Bovary
What does a 19th-century French tragedy about adultery have to do with Thanksgiving?
The Atlantic
A Feminist Subjugated Through Food
Julia Ward Howe's husband sought to control even what she ate.
NPR
Good Atticus, Bad Atticus
When America confronted the two faces of its most ambiguous fictional hero: Atticus Finch
The Paris Review
When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing
John Kipling was likely the most widely searched-for soldier of WWI.
New Yorker.com
Two great little men
One week after Waterloo, Napoleon turned into Mr. Pickwick
The Economist.com (Prospero)
The Most Punctual Man in India
Gandhi believed we are trustees of time. To waste it is criminal.
Lapham's Quarterly
Auden's 1939 elegy for Yeats set off something beautiful
It linked Yeats, Auden, Eliot, Brodsky, Walcott, Heaney — and Kafka.
Los Angeles Review of Books
A House Divided Against Itself
Dilip Hiro's book The Long August examines the fratricidal rivalry between India and Pakistan
Wall Street Journal
Britain's Dalits: the stigma persists
Understanding race in the US through the prism of India's caste system
The Guardian
A Patron Saint for Occupy Wall Street
The first man to occupy Wall Street was Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener — in 1853
The New Republic
Operation Margarine
George Orwell's strongest memory of WWI? Not the slaughter. But the taste of margarine.
Harpers.com
García Márquez's cool India Connection
It can be boiled down to three people: A Gandhi, a Gypsy, and a Rushdie.
Forbes Life India

About

Nina Martyris

I worked at The Times of India in Mumbai for many years before moving to the US, where I now live.

I write for several publications including NPR, the New Yorker.com, Paris Review Daily, Harper's.com, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Economist.com, and The Guardian.

I guest lecture at the University of Tennessee's Journalism School and occasionally address various groups on the social and cultural history of tea, a subject I write about frequently for NPR.

A few years ago I was selected for a Gabriel Garcia Márquez Cultural Fellowship and spent two marvelous weeks in Colombia retracing the footsteps of one of my literary heroes.

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