Fiction
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What is romantasy? And why is it the latest bestselling book trend?
Jodi McAlister, The Conversation Kate Cuthbert, The Conversation
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‘Nobody Lights a Candle’ illuminates the dark realities of our unequal society
Veeksha Vagmita
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Fiction: An ageing writer gets a mysterious letter which begins to colour his entire perception
Harekrishna Deka Navamalati Neog Chakraborty
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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise
R Raj Rao
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Global fiction in April: Six recently published books from old favourites and new writers
Scroll Staff
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‘Rescuing a River Breeze’: A joyful romp through mid-20th century Goa
Selma Carvalho
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Immigrant fiction: An Indian academic navigates a green card marriage and single motherhood
Sheila Sundar
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Fiction: Ram Mohan realises the only way to live a respectable life is to hold some kind of power
Devesh Verma
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Fiction: Maya’s elaborate tricks to ward off a billionaire who has his eyes set on her sister’s home
Raghu Srinivasan
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‘Fear of Flying’: Erica Jong’s 1973 book has joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels
Kath Kenny, The Conversation
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April in fiction: Beat the heat with these six new books by South Asian writers
Sayari Debnath
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‘General Firebrand and His Red Atlas’: What is happening to my neighbour will also happen to me
Ipshita Mitra
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Fiction: A zamindar’s young bride is possessed by a she-demon while the great famine ravages Bengal
Arnab Ray
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Fiction: Will Poppy and Tariq be able to sustain their love in a dystopian state?
Dharini Bhaskar
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‘The Solitude of a Shadow’: A novel of unsettling moralities and sympathy with the wretched
Ila Manish
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Fiction: Lahiri Bari is a house of many secrets and contested legacies of injustice, love, and pain
Ramona Sen
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Abanindranath Tagore’s stories for children about the Sun Dynasty of Mewar get new English versions
Abanindranath Tagore Sandipan Deb
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Fiction: Lucky’s sister dies unexpectedly, and all of a sudden her cat starts speaking to him
Yeoh Jo-Ann
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Thriller: A foreign couple with powerful connections is abducted while trekking in the Kumaon
Amitabh Pandey
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How literature and art can help us rethink our problems with sleep
Paul Huebener, The Conversation