Citizens of the world come together and move apart in this book of stories set in Dubai

Aditi Chakraborty

· Feb 10, 2020 · 07:30 am

The stir around Jeanine Cummins’ ‘American Dirt’ reminds us who still runs the publishing world

Christine Larson, The Conversation

· Feb 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When the upper caste fears a Dalit’s moustache: This Malayalam novel is a work of magic and realism

S Hareesh

· Feb 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This coming of age novel explores the outcome of gender confusion in an orthodox family and society

Angshu Dasgupta

· Feb 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

A war photographer has to solve his own murder in this novel. But there’s too much red tape

Shehan Karunatilaka

· Jan 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel explores what can happen when a virtual digital life replaces the real one

Jaithirth Rao

· Jan 25, 2020 · 11:30 am

In Jeet Thayil’s ‘Low’, a man goes on a drug-addled Bombay odyssey after his wife’s suicide

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jan 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

With ‘Low’, Jeet Thayil returns to novelising the most searing experiences in his own life

Jeet Thayil

· Jan 24, 2020 · 08:30 am

A battle in Doklam between India and China is sparked by a centuries-old secret in this novel

Ashwin Sanghi

· Jan 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

This book of short stories is designed to expand the idea of queer beyond desire and borders

Rahul Sen

· Jan 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

An adopted daughter comes back to India looking for her biological mother in this novel

Kunal Basu

· Jan 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Middle-class urban women confront critical moments in their lives in these short stories

Rituparna Roy

· Jan 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

When students rise in protest, in the pages of novels: Six books to read

Anu Kumar

· Jan 11, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘I wrote my novel in real time’: Meena Kandasamy on her uniquely structured ‘Exquisite Cadavers’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists

Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation

· Jan 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This novel is a breathless ride through love and sex, power and slavery, crime and trafficking

Nirmala Govindarajan

· Jan 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The New Provincials’: A story from Sumana Roy’s new book of short fiction, ‘My Mother’s Lover’

Sumana Roy

· Jan 02, 2020 · 05:30 pm

MG Vassanji’s new novel: What a clash between romantic passion and menacing nationalism can be like

MG Vassanji

· Dec 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘I am in a state of wonder, certainty doesn’t convince me’: Urdu novelist Mirza Athar Baig

Akhtar Mirza

· Dec 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Mirza Athar Baig’s surreal Urdu novel in translation will be the first wild ride of fiction in 2020

Mirza Athar Baig

· Dec 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm