Wendy Doniger | The New York Review of Books

Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger is the author of over forty books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History and The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir. Her most recent books are An American Girl in India: Letters and Reflections, 1963–64 and After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata. (May 2023)

Of Crocodiles and Kings

Tony K. Stewart’s new translation of centuries-old Bengali stories reveals their rich and varied sources, including The Thousand and One Nights.

Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides

translated from the Bangla by Tony K. Stewart, with contributions by Ayesha A. Irani

May 11, 2023 issue

Cousin Bob & Cousin Wendy

May 26, 2022 issue

Hearing the ‘Ramayana’ Again

The centrality and vitality of the Ramayana in Indian culture today, its enormous historical importance and continued use in mythological historicizing, can be only roughly approximated in Europe and America by the Bible.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation

translated from the Sanskrit by Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, Rosalind Lefeber, Sheldon I. Pollock, and Barend A. van Nooten; and revised and edited by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

April 7, 2022 issue

Letter

Robert Goldman

Cousin Bob & Cousin Wendy

May 26, 2022 issue

An Open Letter in Support of Jason Rezaian

December 3, 2015 issue

War & The ‘Gita’

March 19, 2015 issue