Book Review
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‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’: What if I become the mob?
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Wolves of Eternity’: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ambitious new novel imagines Europe’s last decades
Alexander Howard, The Conversation
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Ajanta Deo’s Hindi novel ‘Kharij Log’ is an urgent quest to unravel what it means to belong
Arundhati Ghosh
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‘Our Strangers’: Lydia Davis’s new stories address contradictions and absurdities of postmodern life
Tamlyn Avery, The Conversation
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‘The Muslim Secular’: This book argues that Muslims contribute equally to Indian secularism
Shakir Mir
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‘Prophet Song’: The Booker Prize winner is a distinctly Irish tale of civic and ideological collapse
Eve Patten, The Conversation
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‘The Sea Elephants’: A young boy who is often made to feel alone finds his own skin in costumes
Sonal Dugar
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‘Hurda’ interrogates circumstances that make misogynistic tragedies possible, and forgotten
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Sandra Newman’s ‘Julia’ is a vibrant retelling of George Orwell’s classic, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’
Simon Potter, The Conversation Peter Marks, The Conversation
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‘All This Could Be Different’: This novel about a queer immigrant woman resonates universally
Chetan Mahajan
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‘Mad Sisters of Esi’: A fantasy that runs smoothly on a dynamic form, emotions, and opaque magic
Sahana Hegde
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Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger’: How conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but the feelings right
Nick Haslam, The Conversation
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‘The Song of Distant Bulbuls’ is a tender ode to love and a woman’s right to decide for herself
Akankshya Abismruta
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‘Tall Tales by a Small Dog’: A mongrel’s observations on small-town India are funny, witty, visceral
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments’: We all get by with a little help from our friends
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Indians’: Historians tell the many histories of India with humanness and scholarly objectivity
Urmi Chanda
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‘The Fraud’: Zadie Smith’s new novel is a dazzling depiction of Victorian colonial England
Leighan M Renaud, The Conversation
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‘The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao’: A clever reimagination of the Ramayana that terrifies and evokes pity
Sayari Debnath
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‘Unspoken’: A fictionalised examination of the moral framework of what infidelity might mean
Diya Isha
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‘Didi’: A 1915 novel about widowhood and polygamy deftly portrays the tragedies of womanhood
Veeksha Vagmita