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Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is the author of three novels: Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and Leave the World Behind. Other writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and the New Republic. He lives in New York with his family.


Rumaan Alam on the Surreality of Seeing Leave the World Behind Come to Life on Screen

“I had a debilitating crush on Ethan Hawke as a teenager and now he’s playing a character I created. Deranged!”
December 8, 2023  By Rumaan Alam
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Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

"This is a story about how life happens to all of us."
October 10, 2023  By Rumaan Alam
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Did I Write a Gay Book? An Indian Book? A Diverse Book?

Rumaan Alam on Figuring Out Where to Sit at the Table
July 14, 2016  By Rumaan Alam
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Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Her Work Mitigated the Solitude of Parenting
April 29, 2016  By Rumaan Alam
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Why Wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley on the Cover of a Magazine?

Rumaan Alam on How We Still Judge Women Writers By a Different Standard
April 11, 2016  By Rumaan Alam
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