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Sunday book pick: ‘In Youth is Pleasure’ is a whimsical bildungsroman about youthful curiosity
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: ‘Transcription’ brings us memories of a moment not ‘recorded’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Rebel English Academy’: Mohammed Hanif’s new novel richly rewards the patient reader
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Fiction: The whole galaxy is against Saraswati Kaveri, Serenity Ko, and their new food stimulation
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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‘Secrets simmer, things get unhinged in the heat’: Bhavika Govil on her ‘summer’ novel, ‘Hot Water’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Last of Earth’: Deepa Anappara’s novel makes readers engage with the subversiveness of desire
Saloni Sharma
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Climate fiction: When his father vanishes, Rajan becomes the last keeper of an ancient prophecy
Mridula Ramesh
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Fiction: A drag queen from Mumbai returns to their ancestral village to confront a demonic tree
Salini Vineeth
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‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’: Daniyal Mueenuddin’s first book in 17 years is thrillingly alive
Atharva Pandit
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Fiction: A 13-year-old killer bides his time farming and getting high as battles rage around him
Aurko Maitra
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‘Vigil’ by Booker Prize winner George Saunders: A knock-off Pynchon without the punchline
Tamlyn Avery, The Conversation
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Fiction: Dil, missing from home in London, might be far away and involved in something unthinkable
Mirza Waheed
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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 30: Weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven
Julian Murphet, The Conversation
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Sunday book pick: No crime is committed in Agatha Christie’s 1944 novel, ‘Absent in the Spring’
Sayari Debnath
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How Maggie O’Farrell’s novel ‘Hamnet’ takes from – and mistakes – Shakespeare
Kate Flaherty, The Conversation Amy Walters, The Conversation
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Fiction: Priya’s dream of becoming a movie star makes her do the impossible – abandon her daughter
Sheeba Shah
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‘Real Life’: Amrita Mahale’s new novel considers women who violate the mandates of caste and gender
Sharmistha Jha
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Fiction: Delphi tries to find her footing in theatre while also navigating realities of her youth
Deepika Arwind
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I was enthralled by ‘Crime and Punishment’ at 14. Rereading it after 60 years, I’m still awed
Kevin John Brophy, The Conversation
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‘The Remnants of Rebellion’: A rare novel about troubling inheritances, shifting tides of history
Saloni Sharma