fiction
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‘Extinctions’: Sharmistha Mohanty’s rich and plentiful writing demands several rounds of re-reading
Janice Pariat
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October reading: From fantasy to noir, seven recent works of fiction that capture the imagination
Sayari Debnath
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‘Blonde’: Joyce Carol Oates’s epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myths
Mel Campbell, The Conversation
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Read Imayam’s short story about a mother seeking justice for her child who has been sexually abused
Imayam
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Both poetry and prose, both graphic novel and picture book, ‘Still Life’ exists on the borders
Swati Singh
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A grieving child. A mysterious colony. A lurking menace. Will 9-year-old Varun survive the threats?
Bikram Sharma
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Fiction: Caught between its Nizam and independent India, what price did the state of Hyderabad pay?
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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Historians in Calcutta begin a modern-day search for the lost jewel, Aasma-i-Noor, in this novel
Sudipta Sen Gupta
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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books
Helen Fulton, The Conversation
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‘When Women Were Dragons’: A coming-of-age feminist book featuring dragons and the ‘dragoning’
Aishwarya Dani
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2022 Kirkus Prize: 18 fiction, nonfiction, young readers’ books compete for $50,000 cash prize
Scroll Staff
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Young friends and their pet elephant travel back in time to meet Alexander the Great in this book
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers
Tanuj Solanki
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In this new novel, a group of eccentrics gets together to solve the mysterious death of a neighbour
Pashupati Chatterji
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Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’
Julian Novitz, The Conversation
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A young man who finds fame in early 20th century Bombay is the star of this new novel
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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Anees Salim’s newest novel is set in Paradise Lodge, a hotel where people come to die
Anees Salim
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‘Honor’ is a novel of two couples and the heartbreaking challenges of love across cultural divisions
Thrity Umrigar
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If you loved Homer’s Greek epic ‘The Odyssey’, here are five other books you might want to read
Rachel Bryant Davies, The Conversation
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Jerry Pinto’s new novel is an ode to friendship, sexual and political awakening in 1980s’ Mumbai
Jerry Pinto