One reason Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ may have been shortlisted for the Man Booker? Sheer inventiveness

Anu Kumar

· Sep 23, 2017 · 05:30 pm

How far from (or near) are we to the India depicted in Nayantara Sehgal’s new novel?

Nayantara Sahgal

· Sep 19, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Here is a candidate for the global Sri Lankan novel, and it is only the author’s debut

Sharanya Manivannan

· Sep 17, 2017 · 06:30 pm

In ‘A Legacy of Spies’, Smiley (and John le Carré) offer the world view of the disillusioned spy

Vivek Kaul

· Sep 17, 2017 · 03:30 pm

This moving Booker long-listed novel tells a stark story of the mysterious effects of human bondage

Anu Kumar

· Sep 10, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Can a formula romance in the Raj era have anything to do with colonialism or Bollywood (or both)?

Sayali Palekar

· Sep 03, 2017 · 06:30 pm

This novel shows that old-fashioned storytelling and relationships are still crucial to fiction

Helen Calcutt

· Sep 03, 2017 · 08:45 am

Salman Rushdie’s new novel abandons magical realism to become a political suspense thriller

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Sep 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

The boy who wanted to be a fast bowler when everyone dreamt of being a batsman

Rahul Oak

· Aug 27, 2017 · 07:30 pm

YA readers who like good books must avoid bestselling poet Lang Leav’s tearful fiction debut

Sayali Palekar

· Aug 26, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a new short story

Scroll Staff

· Aug 19, 2017 · 12:42 pm

This epic saga of a Kerala port is as much history as it is a work of expansive imagination

Jael Silliman

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

How have Indian novelists depicted Independence and the Partition? Here’s a sampler from their works

Scroll

· Aug 15, 2017 · 06:30 pm

It’s fiction, not history, that reveals the real impact of the Partition on women

Sukrita Paul Kumar

· Aug 15, 2017 · 05:30 pm

‘I am drawn to terrifying things’, says the novelist who feels squeamish seeing his name on his book

Smriti Daniel

· Aug 13, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Nothing actually happens in Elif Batuman’s campus novel ‘The Idiot’, which is why you love it

Devapriya Roy

· Aug 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

This novel reminds us decolonisation and the end of slavery are not as complete as we like to think

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 12, 2017 · 06:00 am

This novel interrogates contemporary Indian politics, borrowing from ‘King Lear’ and adding Kashmir

Preti Taneja, The Conversation

· Aug 10, 2017 · 08:30 am

In a British author’s crowdfunded book, Bond and Holmes are no match for a Punjabi private eye

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Aug 08, 2017 · 02:30 pm

‘The world is ready for the Indian novel – not immigrant or exotic – from India’: writer Diksha Basu

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 06, 2017 · 03:30 pm