Zain Saeed’s debut novel asks if the American brand of freedom can mean release for some Pakistanis

In ‘Little America’, the narrator builds an unreal world in Karachi – and goes to jail for it.

Isa Ayidh

· Nov 21, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Sally Rooney’s ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ uncovers confessions from ageing millennials

Rooney’s latest isn’t relatable like a meme your friends forward to your WhatsApp group – it’s universal like sex.

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative

But this approach does not always work for the reader.

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for storytelling?

Priyadarshi Thakur uses the dictated autobiography as a means of writing a novel about Queen Ruupmati.

Isa Ayidh

· Aug 22, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Shivani Sibal’s debut novel neatly slices open class equations within Delhi’s power elite

The telling of this story is as effective as the story itself.

Isa Ayidh

· Aug 14, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it

Tarana Husain Khan doesn’t write women only as damsels in distress, she writes them as women who challenge.

Isa Ayidh

· Jun 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

A clever device – a narrator who is losing her memory – ignites this novel of the modern family

Meera Rajagopalan’s debut novel tells the story of an unexpected character, minus the Indian stereotype.

Isa Ayidh

· May 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

Anubha Yadav’s debut novel lays bare middle-class Indian masculinity, especially for men who deny it

‘The Anger of Saintly Men’ is a ruthless novel about the male perspective written by a woman.

Isa Ayidh

· Mar 28, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The peacock dances and then sheds its feathers. This novel links the plumage to publishing

Siddharth Chowdhury’s new novel, ‘The Time of the Peacock’, travels with writers and publishers.

Isa Ayidh

· Mar 21, 2021 · 08:30 am