Book review
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‘The Unrepentant’: These Short stories looking at Malaysia’s past feel intimate, yet startlingly new
Rashmi Patel
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‘Intemperance’ by Sonora Jha: 55-year-old woman’s ‘swayamvar’ story is charming and wise
Madhulika Liddle
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‘Real Life’: Amrita Mahale’s new novel considers women who violate the mandates of caste and gender
Sharmistha Jha
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‘Lonely People Meet’: Sayantan Ghosh’s debut loses its way in philosophy and alternate reality
Diya Sengupta
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‘Our Friends In Good Houses’: Rahul Pandita’s debut novel is a haunting quest for home
Priyanka Dubey
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‘Seeking the Infinite’: Devotion and longing in Madhu Raghavendra’s poems seeking the divine
Gitanjali Roy
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‘The Art of Unboxing’: Neera Kashyap’s poems strip the body, mind, and soul to their core essentials
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
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‘A Guardian and a Thief’ by Megha Majumdar: A warning against apathy and arrogance
Saloni Sharma
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‘After Midnight’ by Daphne du Maurier proves that she remains the undisputed queen of Gothic fiction
Rahul Singh
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John Grisham’s legal mystery ‘The Widow’ asks if a sleazy lawyer can ever be seen as a ‘good’ victim
Sarah-Jane Coyle, The Conversation
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Booker Prize 2025: ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay, cold and compelling, follows a man’s fleeting fortune
Diya Isha
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‘What We Can Know’: Ian McEwan’s new novel explores resentment and vengeance in a fractured world
Kevin John Brophy, The Conversation
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‘Nautch Boy’: Manish Gaekwad’s memoir is also a social document about the politics of respectability
Ipshita Mitra
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‘The Menon Investigation’: In Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s novel, there is no escape from caste
Sayari Debnath
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‘All the Way to the River’: Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir is wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf
Kate Cantrell, The Conversation
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‘This Could Be a Love Poem for You’: Poems that acknowledge the transient and grapple with mortality
John Thieme
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In ‘Longform 2025’, comics and graphic narratives are empathy-generating machines
Devarsi Ghosh
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‘Burns Boy’ by Krupa Ge observes the debilitating effects of time and ageing on familial discord
Sayari Debnath
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‘When Time is a Magic Jar’: Poems of despair and decay, alongside hope and undying dreams of love
Neera Kashyap
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‘On the Banks of the Mayyazhi’: In this novel, the river cradles folklore, revolution, and history
Aratrika Ghosh