‘That night, Daddy left’: In this novel, a marriage, an affair, family history, and a shot at love

Dharini Bhaskar

· Dec 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

A former hitman writes from life in this novel about his dilemma over killing a rival gangster

Agni Sreedhar

· Dec 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Harry Potter fandom leads four lonely people to form bonds in Keshava Guha’s debut novel

Keshava Guha

· Dec 03, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Few novels present oppression and suffering through hard stories the way Uzma Aslam Khan’s book does

Osama Siddique

· Nov 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Romesh Gunesekera returns to Sri Lanka, the country of his birth, with this coming-of-age novel

Romesh Gunesekera

· Nov 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends

Suhasini Patni

· Nov 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

Meet DCP Rita Ferreira, the fictional detective who stars amongst Mumbai’s top policemen

Vish Dhamija

· Nov 21, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel begins on the night before the separation between the narrator and her husband

Silvia Arazi

· Nov 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths

Daniel Cook, The Conversation

· Nov 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

First read: Death, love, and madness all lie at the heart of Cyrus Mistry’s new novel

Cyrus Mistry

· Nov 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death

Kanishka Gupta

· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

Here’s what’s special about Madhuri Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize

Paromita Patranobish

· Nov 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Nov 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee (2001-’17) wrote these stories at 16. She would have been 18 when published

Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee

· Oct 31, 2019 · 07:30 am

Can a book be haunted? Read this story from a collection of intimate tales from forgotten places

Aruni Kashyap

· Oct 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s strangely real world is back in this English translation of his fiction

Vinod Kumar Shukla

· Oct 29, 2019 · 07:30 am

When a god-fearing, vegetarian, middle-class businessman gets a huge but troubling opportunity

Parinda Joshi

· Oct 28, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘I was so ignorant, naïve, small-minded that I couldn’t have possibly written anything better.’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 27, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Want to know more about ‘late stage capitalism’? Read this satirical novel from Australia

Simon Ryan, The Conversation

· Oct 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm