‘Whereabouts’: Jhumpa Lahiri is still asking what it means to belong, though not for immigrants

Lahiri translated her own Italian novel into English, and is not writing of the Indian diaspora in the USA.

Harsimran Gill

· May 09, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Principles of Prediction': Anushka Jasraj's mesmerising debut collection revels in the unknowable

Reality and absurdity blend in this collection of short stories.

Harsimran Gill

· Jan 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Hellfire’: From a bright morning full of possibilities to nightfall in a house shrouded in secrets

Leesa Gazi’s Bengali novel, translated into English by Shabnam Nadiya, is a thrilling, unsettling, and wildly satisfying descent into the macabre.

Harsimran Gill

· Dec 05, 2020 · 12:30 pm

How complicit is the employee of a corporation that follows unethical practices, asks this novel

Tanuj Solanki’s ‘The Machine Is Learning’ raises questions that cannot, perhaps, be answered just yet.

Harsimran Gill

· Aug 29, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘A Burning’: An extraordinary debut novel explores justice and ambition in an unequal land

Who is allowed to dream in a country where injustice prevails, asks Megha Majumdar’s novel.

Harsimran Gill

· Jun 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

This novel throws new light on the world of the living by showing us how a dead man might see it

Shehan Karunatilaka’s ‘Chats With The Dead’ is peopled with ghosts investigating political killings in Sri Lanka.

Harsimran Gill

· Mar 22, 2020 · 11:30 am

‘My book is not an apocalyptic book at all. I guess I’m leaving hope as a possibility’: Amitav Ghosh

The author of ‘Gun Island’ on the role of fiction, his relationship with the Sunderbans, and why pre-modern texts might hold answers to today’s problems.

Harsimran Gill

· Jun 17, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Adèle’: She stunned us with ‘Lullaby’ but Leïla Slimani falters with her novel about a sex addict

Slimani’s newly-translated novel is marked by her distinctive style but leaves her eponymous protagonist opaque.

Harsimran Gill

· Apr 07, 2019 · 07:00 am

Meet the geneticist and author who is using ancient DNA to upend how we approach human history

An interview with David Reich, scientist and author of ‘Who We Are and How We Got There’.

Harsimran Gill

· Feb 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

Mary Beard interview: ‘Being a popular writer helps you say the unpopular’

An interview with the classicist and historian about the problems with social media, looking at the classics through a modern lens and populism today.

Harsimran Gill

· Feb 17, 2019 · 07:00 am

Colson Whitehead on ‘The Underground Railroad’: ‘There’s no rule about what I can write’

An interview with the American author about the Pulitzer prize-winning ‘The Underground Railroad’ and writing about history through the lens of fiction.

Harsimran Gill

· Feb 10, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘It’s about the saddest things I can think of’: Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer on his comic novel

An interview with the American author about ‘Less’, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and what he’s looking forward to in queer literature.

Harsimran Gill

· Feb 03, 2019 · 07:00 am