‘A Suitable Girl’ is coming. What was it like to read Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ 24 years ago?

Devapriya Roy

· May 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

When polar bears do a better job than people at explaining the human condition

Todd Shimoda

· May 21, 2017 · 03:30 pm

This intriguing, edgy collection of stories could well have been called ‘Humans of Sri Lanka’

Shireen Quadri

· May 20, 2017 · 07:00 am

The future that ‘Leila’ presents is already here, and all of us may be responsible

Trisha Gupta

· May 20, 2017 · 05:30 am

Kiran Nagarkar’s explosive first novel was in Marathi. Now you can read it again

Kiran Nagarkar

· May 17, 2017 · 08:30 am

You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator? Paula (‘Girl on the Train’) Hawkins’s new thriller has ten

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· May 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

Is Bombay the real ‘Friend of My Youth’ whom Amit Chaudhuri writes about in his new novel?

Unmana Datta

· May 14, 2017 · 05:30 pm

What happened after Arshad said ‘Talaq! talaq! talaq!’?: Mahasweta Devi’s short story, ‘The Divorce’

Mahasweta Devi

· May 14, 2017 · 07:30 am

Fiction pick: The girl who learnt to sculpt goddesses, and then disappeared

Torsa Ghosal

· May 07, 2017 · 06:00 am

What makes novelist Anjum Hasan a writer of poems but not a poet?

Rohini Kejriwal

· May 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

Fiction pick: What goes through a person’s mind as they contemplate jumping to death?

Ganesh Matkari

· May 06, 2017 · 08:15 am

A world where women are the dominant sex? This timely novel imagines it, 5,000 years from now

Achala Upendran

· May 06, 2017 · 06:00 am

Fiction pick: How angry can a teenager in a wheelchair get?

Nandhika Nambi

· May 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

Anuja Chauhan’s new romance will raise heartbeats for more than one reason (there’s a war thrown in)

Devapriya Roy

· May 01, 2017 · 08:30 am

The stories may be erotic, but this novel tells frightening truths about Punjabi lives in Southall

Shireen Quadri

· Apr 29, 2017 · 09:45 am

Hari Kunzru blends blues music, racial politics and time travel to remind us why we love fiction

Anu Kumar

· Apr 22, 2017 · 07:00 am

This historical novel goes back to Alexander’s invasion of Bharat

Rahul Mitra

· Apr 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’: When a memoir is full of lies (which is why you want to read it)

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Apr 16, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Happy fiftieth birthday, Adrian Mole. What would you have said about today’s world?

Shreya Sen Handley

· Apr 15, 2017 · 08:30 am

Climate-change in these three novels is even more terrifying than in real life

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Apr 15, 2017 · 07:30 am