Fiction
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Colson Whitehead on ‘The Underground Railroad’: ‘There’s no rule about what I can write’
Harsimran Gill
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Easterine Kire’s new novel offers an insightful history of Nagaland through the stories of two women
Makepeace Sitlhou
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‘Tell Her Everything’: A doctor reflects on a dark past in Mirza Waheed’s new novel
Mirza Waheed
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Love, longing and lotus: This novel goes inside a boys’ school run by an order of monks
Saikat Majumdar
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‘It’s about the saddest things I can think of’: Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer on his comic novel
Harsimran Gill
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‘When George III Drives a Train’: A short story by KR Meera
KR Meera
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Krishna Sobti lost a childhood friend in the Partition riots and wrote about her in fiction – twice
Krishna Sobti
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A Van Gogh has been stolen. Is the thief Indian? A new crime novel chases an art masterpiece
Vish Dhamija
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The death of Buffet Bhatt and the antics of Coke Rao: This novel takes a knife to Delhi’s swish set
Ravi Shankar Etteth
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Shame and displacement lead to an unexpected end in this short story from an all-women anthology
Reshma Ruia
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The eternal story of the Rani of Jhansi gets a new treatment in this novel
Moupia Basu
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This novel proves that fiction offers many sides to a story when history provides a single version
Ibtisam Ahmed
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Why this novel about Marwaris in Bengal needs to be looked at through the lens of non-fiction
Sudeep Chakravarti
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In ‘Cut’, a theatre director charged with sedition finds new popularity after his death
Sreemoyee Piu Kundu
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Memories of the Battle of Kohima blend with the realities of present-day Nagaland in this novel
Easterine Kire
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A man is missing because he cannot engage with his daily life. A novel is written about him.
Asif Farrukhi
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Perumal Murugan’s double sequels to ‘One Part Woman’ explore what comes after a transgression
Sharanya Manivannan
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Three teenaged lives start to unravel in this Young Adult novel about love, loss and mental illness
Himanjali Sankar
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A young doctor negotiates love, sexuality and family in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s new novel
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This novel gives faces and voices to the victims of the 1984 massacre of Sikhs
Suhasini Patni