These stories of love and longing in a Mumbai high-rise gently get to the heart of urban anxieties

Soumya Bhattacharya

· Oct 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The Witcher’ books, coming to Netflix, tell their stories in ways seldom seen in fantasy fiction

Kaustav Sood

· Oct 06, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Why contemporary fiction can no longer evade an ethical obligation to engage with the climate crisis

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Oct 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

Do John le Carré’s spy novels distort the real image of Britain’s secret intelligent service?

Christopher J Murphy, The Conversation

· Oct 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Beneath the veneer of a crime novel, ‘You Beneath Your Skin’ is a study of problematic relationships

Rituparna Roy

· Oct 05, 2019 · 12:30 pm

An outspoken young woman in a feisty job interview sets the tone in Durjoy Datta’s new novel

Durjoy Datta

· Oct 05, 2019 · 08:30 am

What fictional superheroes can tell us about devotion and why we believe in gods

Thomas Swan and Jamin Halberstadt, The Conversation

· Oct 03, 2019 · 06:40 pm

‘Being Gandhi’: This YA novel examines what it means to be Gandhian in modern and contemporary India

Paro Anand

· Oct 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm

The near-forgotten ‘Demon of Cawnpore’ revealed Jules Verne’s reading of India and its conflicts

Revanth Ukkalam

· Sep 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

For the first time in recent years, a novel set in Afghanistan talks about intimacy, not just war

Suhasini Patni

· Sep 28, 2019 · 08:30 am

This not-romance between a daughter and her mother is a sensitive study in relationships

Esha Datanwala

· Sep 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Why we must read ‘The Testaments’ for hope whenever there is an authoritative regime

Saloni Sharma

· Sep 21, 2019 · 08:30 am

In this novel a Kerala village institutes a deity who only wants to ride motorcycles

Murali K Menon

· Sep 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel shows us what can happen when racism and violence collide with relationships

Antara Datta

· Sep 14, 2019 · 03:30 pm

‘Repentance’: Read this short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on his 125th birth anniversary

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Sep 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In ‘Quichotte’, Salman Rushdie reimagines a classic in an age where truth is lost to manipulation

Arnav Das Sharma

· Sep 08, 2019 · 05:30 pm

An Indian on the moon: Inspector Matadeen was there before anyone else in this satirical short story

Harishankar Parsai

· Sep 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘The Angel’s Beauty Spots’: Love and violence are blended into KR Meera’s new book of novellas

KR Meera

· Sep 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

The evolution of the transhuman in popular fiction is exploring lives beyond the physical body

Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation

· Sep 05, 2019 · 05:30 pm

You know you’re a nineties’ kid if you find this novel about growing up in Delhi familiar

Yashodhara Lal

· Sep 05, 2019 · 08:30 am