Fiction
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‘Things that can be suffocating and dangerous’: Tishani Doshi on her novel ‘Small Days and Nights’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya
Joginder Paul
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The Japanese occupation of the Andamans during World War II changes lives irrevocably in this novel
Uzma Aslam Khan
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How illustrations have kept the magical appeal of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ alive for successive generations
Christian Algar
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A cursing, scooter-riding, occult detective lights up this dark fantasy novel featuring tantriks
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘The Overstory’: Why this urgent love letter to trees is a fitting Pulitzer winner for our times
Urvashi Bahuguna
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar
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This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home
Niyati Bafna
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‘The Fate of Butterflies’: A quietly told novel that is full of menace because it can happen to us
Suhasini Patni
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Marlon James takes fantasy fiction as we know it and makes it breathtakingly new
Arnab Chakraborty
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How Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a doctor in the US, wrote a prizewinning debut collection of short stories
Sana Goyal
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A young man negotiates a life marked by loneliness and mental illness in this remarkable debut novel
Roshan Ali
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When a child’s mother disappears: Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel explores the afterlife of a rape
Raj Kamal Jha
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In Tishani Doshi's new novel, a woman discovers a sister who was kept a secret her whole life
Tishani Doshi
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With his next novel, Salman Rushdie joins an illustrious line of those who rewrote ‘Don Quixote’
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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‘Adèle’: She stunned us with ‘Lullaby’ but Leïla Slimani falters with her novel about a sex addict
Harsimran Gill
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The Emergency looms as a young woman named Indira sets up a library for girls in this novel
Srishti Chaudhary
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The dying mother of a Jewish family relocates to Varanasi in this novel, with an unexpected outcome
Tova Reich
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Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain
Sana Goyal
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‘My novel is at a four-way stop of racism, misogyny, invisibility and being othered in America’
Urvashi Bahuguna