Fiction
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‘The Black Magic Woman’ uses short fiction to recount the travails of people in North-East India
Somjyoti Mridha
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What would you read if you read the winners of the 2022 Valley of Words Book Awards?
Scroll Staff
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‘My Name is Not Malini’: Read Shehan Karunatilaka’s story from his new collection of short fiction
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Booker Prize longlist: ‘Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies’ is a visual dystopia of a body in decay
Rahul Singh
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Booker Prize nominee ‘Small Things Like These’ celebrates ‘small’ triumphs of everyday life
Debanjana Das
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‘Extinctions’: Sharmistha Mohanty’s rich and plentiful writing demands several rounds of re-reading
Janice Pariat
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October reading: From fantasy to noir, seven recent works of fiction that capture the imagination
Sayari Debnath
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‘Blonde’: Joyce Carol Oates’s epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myths
Mel Campbell, The Conversation
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Read Imayam’s short story about a mother seeking justice for her child who has been sexually abused
Imayam
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Both poetry and prose, both graphic novel and picture book, ‘Still Life’ exists on the borders
Swati Singh
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A grieving child. A mysterious colony. A lurking menace. Will 9-year-old Varun survive the threats?
Bikram Sharma
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Fiction: Caught between its Nizam and independent India, what price did the state of Hyderabad pay?
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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Historians in Calcutta begin a modern-day search for the lost jewel, Aasma-i-Noor, in this novel
Sudipta Sen Gupta
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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books
Helen Fulton, The Conversation
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‘When Women Were Dragons’: A coming-of-age feminist book featuring dragons and the ‘dragoning’
Aishwarya Dani
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2022 Kirkus Prize: 18 fiction, nonfiction, young readers’ books compete for $50,000 cash prize
Scroll Staff
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Young friends and their pet elephant travel back in time to meet Alexander the Great in this book
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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‘The Issue’: Read Tanuj Solanki’s short fiction from a new anthology featuring young Indian writers
Tanuj Solanki
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In this new novel, a group of eccentrics gets together to solve the mysterious death of a neighbour
Pashupati Chatterji
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Ghoulishness, depravity and stupidity: welcome to the world of Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’
Julian Novitz, The Conversation