Fiction
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‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history
Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation
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‘The Wait And Other Stories’: Damodar Mauzo reaches into cracks and crevices in search of Goa
Sayari Debnath
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In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore
Saloni Sharma
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The rise, fall and resurrection of horror fiction in American popular entertainment
Ali Alizadeh, The Conversation
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Abortion in fiction draws on the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights
Sharon Engbrecht, The Conversation
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‘Weird Women’s Club’: Aruna Nambiar’s novel is a witty exploration of womanhood and its side effects
Debanjana Das
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Former International Booker winner Jokha Alharthi’s latest novel leaves a bittersweet aftertaste
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility
Saloni Sharma
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Reading list: Eight novels that tell us how Indian fiction looks at Indian politics
Sayari Debnath
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‘Ladies’ Tailor’: A Partition refugee tries to make a new life after losing his old one
Priya Hajela
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‘Ruffled Feathers’: A new collection of short fiction captures people navigating a grim world
V Sanjay Kumar
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‘Nireeswaran’: A group of atheists plays a prank to mock religion. Things don’t go according to plan
VJ James
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‘Battles of Our Own’: A harsh reminder of how political power imbalances control individual desires
Sahana Hegde
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Easterine Kire’s new novel riffs on a Chang Naga legend of sudden darkness descending on the land
Easterine Kire
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‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times
VJ James
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A chinar tree in Pakistan is a witness to the interconnected stories in this collection
Ali Rohila
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Meet Arun Vijay, the arrogant superstar from Sujatha’s novel ‘Dream Factory’
Sujatha
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Philosophy, obsession and puzzling people: Julian Barnes’s new novel explores big questions
Janna Thompson, The Conversation
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Here comes pandemic fiction: murder, disease , life after death in Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
Julian Novitz, The Conversation
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Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James
VJ James