An American writer of Indian origin has written a marvellous book about memory, not immigrants

Durga Chew-Bose’s essays in ‘Too Much and Not the Mood’ will make the reader search for themselves too.

Anu Kumar

· 8 hours ago

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

Ancient, medieval, and recent history, populated by characters and communities spread over 2000 years.

Jael Silliman

· 17 hours ago

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

This could be the definitive Harvard University novel of the near past.

Devapriya Roy

· Aug 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Finally, a tantalising YA book (for adults too) that uses archaeology to recount Indian history

‘India Through Archaeology’ wisely tells us history isn’t to be mixed up with ancient oral texts.

Anu Kumar

· Aug 12, 2017 · 10:30 am

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

What happens to the children of the children of slaves? ‘Homegoing’ has some answers.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 12, 2017 · 06:00 am

This clever period novel about a Parsi boy born without a future (almost) wins you over

Give Tashan Mehta’s ‘The Liar’s Weave’ a chance if you’re in for some cleverly personalised mythology.

Sayali Palekar

· Aug 06, 2017 · 08:30 am

This book reveals what 9/11 (and after) may have been like from Osama Bin Laden’s point of view

The book details Osama’s cloistered life in Abbotabad, his squabbles with family, his dwindling power over his once subservient outfit, and his assassination.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Aug 06, 2017 · 07:00 am

Like its title, and life, nothing in Kiran Nagarkar’s rich ‘Seven Sixes are Forty-Three’ adds up

The truths that this book tells us are often the ones we don’t want to know.

Simrin Sirur

· Aug 05, 2017 · 08:30 am

Hardly any aliens, but alienation aplenty in this graphic novel on love and loss set in the future

It’s not science fiction, but it’s gripping.

Debkumar Mitra

· Jul 31, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why everyone should read more of Malayalam writer Rajelakshmy’s groundbreaking fiction

The Malayalam writer, who killed herself at just 35, is acknowledged as one of the creators of post-colonial prose modernism.

Nikhil Govind

· Jul 30, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Two families wrestle with their opposing Muslim identities in Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’

From the Man Booker longlist: How do a hijab-wearing woman and a proudly undevout man end up pitting cherries for jam on a terrace together?

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jul 30, 2017 · 07:00 am

‘The Lovers’ mixes fact and fiction like desire and history to create a unique immigrant novel

A story of modern love set in the murky terrain of desire and cultural mishaps, braiding together the pleasures of fiction and non-fiction.

Niyati Bhat

· Jul 29, 2017 · 07:00 am