Refuge, reparation, return: What reading Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel ‘The Far Field’ brings to mind

Here, the personal enters the arena of the political messily, clumsily, loudly, and unapologetically.

Sayali Palekar

· Oct 26, 2019 · 07:30 am

Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra

V Ramaswamy’s translations of the Bengali writer’s work brings fresh evidence of the maverick’s trademark fiction.

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 15, 2019 · 12:30 pm

These two collections of Telugu stories depict women being battered daily. Do they work as fiction?

Two books in translation – ‘The Rock that Was Not’ by Githanjali, and ‘Here I Am’ by P Sathyavathi – that are tragic reminders of women failing themselves.

Sayali Palekar

· May 19, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction’: A debut novel that turns into an endless search for purpose

The tedium of a search should not imply tedious reading, but that is the case with Roshan Ali’s debut novel.

Sayali Palekar

· May 04, 2019 · 12:30 pm

What if our everyday emotions turned into diseases? This novel explores the possibilities

Vikram Paralkar’s ‘The Afflictions’ identifies states of being through a unique fictional encyclopaedia.

Sayali Palekar

· Feb 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Godsong’: This translation (re)locates the Gita in Arjuna’s confusion and Krishna’s eloquence

A new translation of a much-translated classic must bring something new to readers. ‘Godsong’ does just that.

Sayali Palekar

· Dec 16, 2018 · 05:30 am

This poetry anthology reveals (again) why India must reclaim its own literary tradition of desire

‘Love And The Turning Seasons’ may have been meant for a Western audience, but it gives readers from India the chance to discover something too.

Sayali Palekar

· Sep 30, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Parismita Singh’s short stories question whether ‘Peace Has Come’ to North East India

The violence is never distant enough in these text stories by the graphic novel writer.

Sayali Palekar

· Sep 22, 2018 · 07:00 am

What happens when a teenager meets her personal jinn? This YA novel is anything but a fairytale

Shazaf Fatima Haider’s ‘A Firefly In The Dark’ explores the uncertainty of love in a magical way.

Sayali Palekar

· Jul 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

A meditation: Han Kang’s ‘White Book’ truly deserves a description that is overused for fiction now

Prepare to be extremely disturbed as you read this genre-defying work from the author of ‘The Vegetarian’.

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A scary novel without ghosts in it: Jhumpa Lahiri’s translation of Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’

‘They’re kids. Come on.’ Or is there more to it?

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Black meets white in a novel from America that matters to Indians because of race

Jesmyn Ward’s new novel is again in the running for the National Book Award in the US.

Sayali Palekar

· Oct 01, 2017 · 06:30 pm