Short stories
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In JM Coetzee’s new book, questions of the soul become urgent as the body becomes frail
Sue Kossew, The Conversation
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New in fiction: A new anthology brings English translations of contemporary Malayalam short stories
Nirmala J Devika
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‘Marquez, EMS, Gulam and Others’: Benyamin’s short stories breathe new life into the medium
Isa Ayidh
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Fiction: A Sikh woman in Singapore finally comes out of her brother’s shadow to live her life
Nilanjana Sengupta
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‘Filmi Stories’: Kunal Basu’s thrilling and dramatic short stories unfold like scenes from movies
Debotri Ghosh
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‘We want high levels of craft’: Founder Indira Chandrasekhar on the literary journal ‘Out of Print’
Scroll Staff
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Tamil writer CN Annadurai’s short fiction is now ready to be read in English translation
CN Annadurai Ramakrishnan V
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Fiction: An older Indian man wants to marry a Japanese woman, but she sets an unusual condition
Rajesh Talwar
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June fiction reading list: Six recently novels and short story collections by Indian authors
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: A young boy tries hard to hold his family together as his parents’ marriage disintegrates
Saras Manickam
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For young readers: A new collection of 25 timeless tales about nature by Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond
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In Kunal Basu’s new book of short stories, unforeseen terrors and adventures are never too far away
Kunal Basu
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‘Fate’s Game’: Stories written almost a century ago tackle dowry, caste, and female oppression
Saloni Sharma
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Malayalam author Manasi, known for her feminist short stories, has been translated into English
Manasi J Devika
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Read ‘A Face in the Dark’ from a new collection of Ruskin Bond’s most popular stories
Ruskin Bond
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‘Industrial Roots’: Penury, paucity, and pain of working-class women are unmissable in these stories
Ipshita Mitra
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A new book of short stories is based on eyewitness accounts of women’s lives in royal harems
Apala G Egan
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Rajkamal Chaudhary’s short stories give glimpses into newly independent India and its weariness
Rajkamal Chaudhary Saudamini Deo
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May fiction: Stories set in newly independent India, dystopian near-future India, and more
Sayari Debnath
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New in translation: Another set of short stories by the Malayalam author Benyamin
Benyamin