fiction
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Fiction? Check. Cultural history? Check. Elegy? Check. Jeet Thayil’s new novel is utterly satisfying
Vivek Menezes
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Four Indian novels make it to the longlist of the 2018 Dublin Literary Award
Scroll Staff
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Ravinder Singh’s ‘I Too Had A Love Story’ is being published in the UK
Scroll Staff
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In his celebrated Kannada novel ‘Shikari’, Yashwant Chittal strikes at the heart of human betrayal
Yashwant Chittal
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Empires, poetry and intrigue: When Kalidas played a part in a royal coup in the Gupta dynasty
Nandini Sengupta
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Shirley Jackson’s novels are eerie literary fiction. She left the best for the last
Nicholas Rixon
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Jeet Thayil’s new novel is fiction on the life of a painter-poet. Here, he paints Indira Gandhi
Jeet Thayil
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The Virgin Suicides
Scroll Staff
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‘Through A Glass Darkly’ is that rare crime novel where you never know what actually happened
Jai Arjun Singh
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Award-winning writer Anuradha Roy’s ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’ comes out next year
Scroll
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Why this writer made an old person a superhero in her book (because real life demands it)
Lavanya Karthik
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John Green is back and, naturally, YA readers will find their hearts jumping again
Niyati Bhat
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DSC Prize Shortlist: Anjali Joseph’s ‘The Living’ celebrates everyday moments
Anjali Joseph
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This short story answers the question: ‘What will you do if you know when you will die?’
Amit Dasgupta
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Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ shows why Brexit may be good for British fiction (if not the British economy)
Antony Mullen, The Conversation
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There’s a reason (think John Green meets Stephen King) this debut novel is all the rage in the West
Niyati Bhat
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Translating Ian McEwan’s books to the screen isn’t easy, but film-makers haven’t stopped trying
Nick Bentley, The Conversation
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How writers of stories with ‘impossible crimes’ sidetracked readers with ghostly red herrings
Jai Arjun Singh
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If we become immortal, how will we deal with our mountains of memories? This novel has some answers
MG Vassanji
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Black meets white in a novel from America that matters to Indians because of race
Sayali Palekar