Grave pleasures: Looking back on desire, death and the 20 years between Arundhati Roy’s novels

Are the twins of ‘The God of Small Things’ finally fused in the androgynous Anjum of ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’?

Brinda Bose

· Jan 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’: A bleakly beautiful journey across a devastated American wasteland

The last in a three-part series about the changing concerns of the road novel.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Jan 07, 2018 · 06:30 pm

‘Mara and Dann’: Doris Lessing’s futuristic novel embodies a journey away from our dismal world

The second in a series on novels with road trips at the heart of their narratives.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Dec 24, 2017 · 07:30 pm

‘On The Road’: Jack Kerouac’s madcap novel about wild people in a car gave a voice to a generation

The first in a series on novels with road trips at the heart of their narratives.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Dec 10, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Will Arundhati Roy's new novel change the course of Indian writing in English again?

'The God of Small Things' sparked a whole new literature. What will 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' bring?

Ulka Anjaria

· Mar 09, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ is 50, but ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is Marquez’s greatest

The bleakness of the more iconic novel is dispelled by the light and faith of love in the other one.

Aruni Kashyap

· Dec 17, 2015 · 08:30 am