Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ shows us how society used to view female criminals

Catherine Cox, The Conversation Hilary Marland, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives?

Shashank Bhargava

· Aug 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity

Shamik Ghosh

· Aug 05, 2018 · 07:00 am

This book of gut-wrenching short stories is a testament to how military conflict has bled Kashmir

Akhil Katyal

· Aug 04, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Latitudes of Longing’: An exceptional debut novel that shows nothing (and nobody) is set in stone

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel is a minimalist study of revenge (and features Agastya Sen’s father)

Trisha Gupta

· Aug 04, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘India’: A short story by the Bengali writer Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) who died at 95

Ramapada Chowdhury

· Jul 31, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Rainy day reads: These sharply authentic thrillers place women firmly at their core

Neha Bhatt

· Jul 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Being young and very rich in urban Pakistan can be heartbreaking too, shows this debut novel

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

Lessons from Ghalib: A courtesan’s quest to forge an identity in the twilight of the Mughal empire

Sikeena Karmali

· Jul 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Opening lines: This is how (some of) the novels on the longlist of the 2018 Man Booker Prize begin

Scroll Staff

· Jul 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

Past and present go head to head in Bulbul Sharma’s novel set in the quiet mountain village of Shaya

Bulbul Sharma

· Jul 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Oceans and mountains, clairvoyants and ghosts, magic and reality all meet in this astonishing debut

Shubhangi Swarup

· Jul 23, 2018 · 08:30 am

Daman Singh’s ‘Kitty’s War’ explores lives and love in a railway town while two wars rage

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Jul 22, 2018 · 08:30 am

A novel inspired by the deadly 1970 Bhola cyclone criss-crosses five decades of Bangladesh’s history

Arif Anwar

· Jul 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

The Arab Spring tears apart the life of a young radio jockey in Benyamin’s new novel

Benyamin

· Jul 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills

Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2018 · 06:30 pm

In this novel, a Bangladeshi woman sets out to find out whether her husband has really been hanged

Anisul Hoque

· Jul 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

What does a young woman in Karachi do when she cannot go to college? Become a model, says this novel

Shandana Minhas

· Jul 16, 2018 · 06:30 pm