fiction
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Fiction: A drag queen from Mumbai returns to their ancestral village to confront a demonic tree
Salini Vineeth
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‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’: Daniyal Mueenuddin’s first book in 17 years is thrillingly alive
Atharva Pandit
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Fiction pick: A ‘partly mad, partly sane’ man’s nonsense rhymes delight the village children
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
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Crime fiction: The bride-to-be, a fresh-off-the-boat English memsahib, disappears before the wedding
Arjun Raj Gaind
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Fiction: A 13-year-old killer bides his time farming and getting high as battles rage around him
Aurko Maitra
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‘Glyph’ by Ali Smith: An exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to ‘Gliff’
Sarah Annes Brown, The Conversation
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‘Vigil’ by Booker Prize winner George Saunders: A knock-off Pynchon without the punchline
Tamlyn Avery, The Conversation
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Thriller: A journalist finds himself in a web of deception that stretches from London to the Balkans
Shyam Bhatia
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Short story: A Dalit couple united by a passion for political activism finds their marriage strained
Anita Bharti Nikhil Pandhi
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Fiction: Dil, missing from home in London, might be far away and involved in something unthinkable
Mirza Waheed
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Fiction: To avoid suspicion, Lizzie has to solve the mystery of a man’s murder after he visits her
Georgina Clarke
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Translated fiction: A woman walks into a room where a group of men gather at night to talk and drink
Kamal Desai Shanta Gokhale
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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 30: Weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven
Julian Murphet, The Conversation
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Sunday book pick: No crime is committed in Agatha Christie’s 1944 novel, ‘Absent in the Spring’
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Kabir returns to Kashmir seeking solace after the tragic loss of his wife and child
Umair Ahmed Khan
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Fiction: Priya’s dream of becoming a movie star makes her do the impossible – abandon her daughter
Sheeba Shah
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Fiction: A gay man and a domestic worker try to understand the burdens of their relationships
Rahul Singh
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‘Songs Our Bodies Sing’: An uneven yet memorable collection of stories about lives on the margins
Ananya Kaushik
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New short fiction by Anita Nair: A social media star falls prey to cyber fraud. Who’ll believe her?
Anita Nair
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Sunday book pick: Fleeing the ‘United States of Bush’ in Ben Lerner’s ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’
Sayari Debnath