Title: Not wanted on voyage
Review: Pico Iyer gets equable mixed up with equitable at the bottom of page 95, but that's the least of his sins. Does any journalistic scrap now count as an essay? Nothing binds together the bits of this impressively chunky but sublimely unnecessary collection, one third in-flight-magazine-style travel writing, nearly two fifths dreary book reviews (books are allowed to be dull, I feel, critics never) and the remainder, well, a bunch of oddments with which to while away an idle hour. In Praise of the Humble Comma? Meh. An unusual name, an Indian-Anglo-American background and a Japanese wife get you a long way in this game. Stow in the hold
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