Samanth Subramanian's "Following Fish"

I see Samanth Subramanian’s Following Fish is mentioned in Simon Winchester’s excellent travel book "roundup," in this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review. Subramanian is an occasional New Yorker contributor. See, for example, his terrific "The Agitator" (The New Yorker, September 2, 2013). Following Fish is one of my favorite books. Last year, I posted a review of it here. I also recommend Subramanian’s "Breach Candy" (Granta, Winter 2015), about an old colonial Mumbai club and a legal challenge to its “arch commandment” that only Europeans are allowed to be trust members. Here’s a taste:

He [Gerry Shirley, one of the litigants] remained alert even through the otherwise slackening texture of a day in court: the buzz of the first hour, then the settled keenness, the post-lunch torpor, the gradual straying of eyes to clocks, the dense energy of a system at work dissipating through the afternoon.

Anyone who’s spent a day in court will relate to that “gradual straying of eyes to clocks.”