Fiction
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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
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An imaginative Mughal-inspired fantasy novel gives us a layered world and a terrifying antagonist
Ashwitha Jayakumar
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Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times
Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation
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In this novel, something big enough to bite a human head off at one go is on the loose in Mumbai
Krishna Udaysankar
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‘The Scent of God’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel bursts with sensory beauty but refuses to go deeper
Imran Ali Khan
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‘Outcaste’: This novel is based on a 1905 trial of a Namboodiri woman accused of adultery
Matampu Kunhukuttan
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Full of adult takeaways, this children’s book asks that young readers be treated as grown-ups
Anurima Chanda
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This ‘story’ by Manoj Pandey is an example of a new form of fiction in the age of technology
Manoj Pandey
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Fantasy writer Samantha Shannon’s new novel places the world on the brink of a war with dragons
Samantha Shannon
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Malayalam writer N Prabhakaran’s stories are a unique cocktail of madness, obsession and politics
N Prabhakaran
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‘The Last Salute’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s story of a battle in Kashmir asks again why wars are fought
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Sophie Kinsella’s new novel shows all that is right (and all that is wrong) with modern chick lit
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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‘Tell Her Everything’: Mirza Waheed’s new novel affirms that we are all many shades of grey
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Paul Zacharia’s mercurial new novel features – among others – god, Stalin, and Satan
Paul Zacharia
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Reading list: Seven pivotal texts by African American women writers that resisted ‘misogynoir’
Nancy Kang, The Conversation