Fiction
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We’ve read books about Everyman. Now Kiran Nagarkar gives us Everywoman in his new novel
Kiran Nagarkar
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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’: A bleakly beautiful journey across a devastated American wasteland
Rajat Chaudhuri
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The world of djinns overlaps with the city of Dhaka in this darkly comic fantasy novel
Saad Z Hossain
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‘It was uncomfortable. The best reason to say yes’: Deborah Treisman on publishing ‘Cat Person’
Kanika Sharma
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Death of an author foretold: Not what you’d expect from a novel by a dialogue-writer for Hindi films
Jai Arjun Singh
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How do you write mythological fiction in the age of censorship? Author of a Padmavati novel speaks
Anuja Chandramouli
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Atonement
Scroll Staff
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Easterine Kire’s new novel is about magic. No, about the supernatural. No, about something else
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Notes on a Scandal
Scroll Staff
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This Ramanand Sagar short story shows he was not only a film director (and the maker of ‘Ramayana’)
Ramanand Sagar Raza Naeem
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Legendary essayist Susan Sontag’s short fiction unlocks a different, intimate self of the writer
Somak Mukherjee
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Mysteries, Mumbai and monsters: This Young Adult novel has all the makings of a pageturner
Shabnam Minwalla
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Darjeeling then and Darjeeling now: Spot the difference in Nepali writer Indra Bahadur Rai’s novel
Indra Bahadur Rai
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A reader’s guide to the five books on the fiction shortlist of the Crossword Book Jury Awards
Harsimran Gill
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‘Mara and Dann’: Doris Lessing’s futuristic novel embodies a journey away from our dismal world
Rajat Chaudhuri
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These may be the stories you don’t know about women you know
Neha Bhatt
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Why is love furious, fleeting, and foreign? Ask Janice Pariat’s new novel
Apoorva Sripathi
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Ruskin Bond has published a collection of his finest novellas for the ultimate blast from the past
Ruskin Bond
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‘Poetry should be listed under fiction’: Watch Jeet Thayil on ‘The Book of Chocolate Saints’
Scroll Staff
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Why HarperCollins India is pushing hard to sign up the biggest names in Indian commercial fiction
Harsimran Gill