The Storyteller

Amish’s method is to treat myth as history remembered imperfectly, and history as myth in the making. His gods are people first — flawed, funny, uncertain — whose divinity is earned through choices. His villains are given reasons. His heroines carry swords and run states.

The result reads like a thriller and lingers like philosophy. Underneath the pace is a consistent set of questions: what is dharma when the rules run out; when does good become evil; what does a civilisation owe its past. He writes, as he has said, to make a new generation curious about ideas they were taught to find boring.