‘Better to Have Gone’: What rereading this book about two deaths in Auroville reveals about faith

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ is part-memoir, part-biography, and perhaps a gesture of love.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Mar 26, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘The Laughter’: Sonora Jha’s novel about the hypocrisies in academia is layered and oh so real

In the beginning, professor Oliver Harding appears to be an average American liberal. Soon, however, the depth of venom in his psyche becomes evident.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Mar 11, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Identitti’: This German novel incoherently interrogates the desi identity crisis in Europe

Mithu Sanyal makes an effort to write a novel of, and for, the internet age.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jan 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘The Book of Everlasting Things’: A novel that is gained in imagination, squandered by the prose

Aanchal Malhotra’s novel is a rewarding read for those interested in understanding the human costs of Partition and the histories inherited from it.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Dec 25, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘The Secret of More’: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s debut novel delivers more than it promises

A sprawling tale of generations, ambition, and all that slips from the fingers when making a life.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Dec 03, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Tejo Tungabhadra’: Vasudhendra’s novel about two rivers is magnificent in both breadth and depth

‘Tejo Tungabhadra’ is a work of historical fiction that attempts this tactile examination through stories of trade and duels, oceans and journeys.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Nov 20, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Less’ sequel: Arthur Less goes on an epic journey in search of love and America

This is the sequel to Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘Less’.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Oct 23, 2022 · 08:30 am

Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way

Alan Garner packs within hundred and fifty odd pages enough to put multi-part fantasy franchises to shame.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Sep 17, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Spirit Nights’: Easterine Kire uses a fable to tell a magical and complex tale of the real world

Despite its fast pace, ‘Spirit Nights’ is not a story told in broad strokes.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Sep 04, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Crimson Spring’ uses fiction to re-scrutinise the imperial ambitions behind Jallianwala Bagh

How a novel can tell the story of April 13, 1919, which forever altered Punjab and its people.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Aug 13, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Either/Or’: Harvard student Selin’s adventures continue in Elif Batuman’s sequel to ‘The Idiot’

Selin, starting her sophomore year at Harvard, has recently returned from teaching English in the Hungarian countryside.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jul 30, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Humour and unease, irony and truth meet effortlessly in the short stories of ‘Ruffled Feathers’

V Sanjay Kumar’s collection of short fiction infuses romance and charm into everyday life.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jul 23, 2022 · 08:30 am