fiction
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Shirley Jackson’s novels are eerie literary fiction. She left the best for the last
Nicholas Rixon
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Jeet Thayil’s new novel is fiction on the life of a painter-poet. Here, he paints Indira Gandhi
Jeet Thayil
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The Virgin Suicides
Scroll Staff
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‘Through A Glass Darkly’ is that rare crime novel where you never know what actually happened
Jai Arjun Singh
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Award-winning writer Anuradha Roy’s ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’ comes out next year
Scroll
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Why this writer made an old person a superhero in her book (because real life demands it)
Lavanya Karthik
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John Green is back and, naturally, YA readers will find their hearts jumping again
Niyati Bhat
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DSC Prize Shortlist: Anjali Joseph’s ‘The Living’ celebrates everyday moments
Anjali Joseph
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This short story answers the question: ‘What will you do if you know when you will die?’
Amit Dasgupta
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Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ shows why Brexit may be good for British fiction (if not the British economy)
Antony Mullen, The Conversation
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There’s a reason (think John Green meets Stephen King) this debut novel is all the rage in the West
Niyati Bhat
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Translating Ian McEwan’s books to the screen isn’t easy, but film-makers haven’t stopped trying
Nick Bentley, The Conversation
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How writers of stories with ‘impossible crimes’ sidetracked readers with ghostly red herrings
Jai Arjun Singh
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If we become immortal, how will we deal with our mountains of memories? This novel has some answers
MG Vassanji
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Black meets white in a novel from America that matters to Indians because of race
Sayali Palekar
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In one of Mark Tully’s new short stories, a politician’s bumbling son fails to connect with voters
Mark Tully
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Meet Ganesh, the crime-solving advocate immortalised by Tamil author Sujatha
Sujatha
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The Scroll.in ‘Empire’ review: The reviewer’s response to the author’s criticism
Ruchika Sharma
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A French novel, written by a Mauritian writer, brings home our experience in India like few books do
Durba Chattaraj
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‘Elmet’ is the outsider, written by an unknown writer, in the race for the Man Booker Prize
Anu Kumar