With these short stories, Akhil Sharma adds funny and gentle variations to a familiar theme

These tales of Indian lives in America get to the core with quiet prose that shows, not tells.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jul 15, 2017 · 07:00 am

Oliver Sacks wrote about cool neuroscience. Bill Hayes writes about loving him (and New York)

This memoir offers an intimate perspective on the neuroscientist and on a dynamic metropolis.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jun 24, 2017 · 07:45 am

If this murder mystery is not really a whodunit, what is it?

The narrative of serial killing is used to tell several other different stories.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Mar 22, 2017 · 08:30 am

Love, pain and film-making in Kashmir make this novel an unusual story from the state

A novel of grace, sadness and self-discovery that sidesteps the obvious.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Mar 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

Is it just the president’s son or all of us who are trapped between the living and the dead?

George Saunders’s spectacular new novel, part-fantasy, part-philosophy, combines an invented otherworldly narrative with real-life reportage.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Feb 25, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Though full of clichés, these erotic stories delve into what’s dark and dangerous about desire

Tanveer Bookwala’s collection, ‘Wet’, does go somewhere despite the banal sex writing.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Feb 11, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Why the HarperCollins UK CEO says ‘Most authors have understood that the roof is on fire’

An interview with Charlie Redmayne, CEO, HarperCollins UK, on digital publishing, HarperCollins’s India plans, and the state of publishing in general.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

The original choice for Ahuja’s role in ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’ was... not Om Puri

Pankaj Kapoor was to play the builder Ahuja, but when he was cast in the larger role of Tarneja, Om Puri made his celebrated comic debut.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 08, 2017 · 01:30 pm

It’s not easy to get a political thriller right. This novel does it

Arnab Ray’s ‘Sultan of Delhi: Ascension’ shakes up the genre effectively.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Dec 07, 2016 · 08:30 am

Sai Paranjpye, the director who ran with hares and tortoises

Ahead of a Mumbai Film Festival lifetime achievement award for the veteran filmmaker, here’s a second look at her ‘Chashme Buddoor’ and ‘Katha’.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Oct 15, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Do trees scream or strategise? How do they live in forests?

Peter Wohlleben’s fascinating ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ invites many such questions.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Sep 24, 2016 · 08:45 am

‘After a while, their desire to control their son’s body and mind feels creepy’: Aravind Adiga

The Man Booker winner talks about his new novel. Or cricket. Or both.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Aug 27, 2016 · 06:30 am