fiction
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Are translated books the new ‘face’ of Indian literature in English? A translator weighs in
N Kalyan Raman
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What does Eric Ambler’s novel ‘The Mask of Dimitrios’ have to do with the Greco-Turkish War?
Denys Leighton
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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?
Saptak Choudhury
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A new novel shows how a genteel Indian middle-class family can be a hotbed of destructive divisions
Udayan Mukherjee
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Fiction: A young Indian man confronts hard realities in his final moments as a murder victim in USA
Karan Madhok
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How romance fiction is rewriting the rulebook: Five things you didn’t know about love in novels
Beth Driscoll, The Conversation Kim Wilkins, The Conversation
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2022 Booker Prize nominee ‘The Trees’ is a haunting story of a past that refuses to be left behind
Archana Nair
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Watch: 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted authors answer readers’ questions about their nominated books
Scroll Staff
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‘Hyderabad’, a novel about a state’s quest for self-rule, is a fine balance of fact and fiction
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Black Magic Woman’ uses short fiction to recount the travails of people in North-East India
Somjyoti Mridha
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What would you read if you read the winners of the 2022 Valley of Words Book Awards?
Scroll Staff
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‘My Name is Not Malini’: Read Shehan Karunatilaka’s story from his new collection of short fiction
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Booker Prize longlist: ‘Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies’ is a visual dystopia of a body in decay
Rahul Singh
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Booker Prize nominee ‘Small Things Like These’ celebrates ‘small’ triumphs of everyday life
Debanjana Das
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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