#Fiction

Gita Krishnankutty

Gita Krishnankutty interview: ‘Simplicity of language is a hurdle in translation’

13 March 2025 2:15 AM

Rojava-Zin

Rojava, Zin: How two novels in different languages depict Kurdish liberation struggle

12 March 2025 4:50 AM

Harper Lee

What Harper Lee’s new book reveals about her as one of America’s beloved writers

11 March 2025 3:41 AM

The Outsiders-Devi Yesodharan

Devi Yesodharan interview: ‘Migration is a journey of hope, but it hyphenates identity’

25 Feb 2025 7:50 AM

Across the River

Across the River review: A novel traces tensions of love, faith in a changing Delhi

20 Jan 2025 3:07 AM

Notable books of 2025

Notable books of 2025 you can look forward to reading, and adding to your TBR list

2 Jan 2025 8:44 AM

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Books yearender 2024: Return of Upamanyu Chatterjee, the sharp-eyed chronicler of Indian ennui

21 Dec 2024 1:00 AM

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory

13 Dec 2024 3:15 AM

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky review: Elif Shafak’s sweeping tale born of a water drop

19 Nov 2024 1:00 AM

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

British writer Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for space novel ‘Orbital’

13 Nov 2024 2:00 AM

Bride in the Hills by Kuvempu

Kuvempu’s novel, Bride in the Hills, limns his cosmic vision of universal man

18 Oct 2024 12:50 PM

Do Not Ask the River Her Name by Sheela Tomy

Do Not Ask the River Her Name review: The story of a Kerala nurse in Nazareth

5 Oct 2024 1:00 AM

Everything There is by MG Vassanji

Everything There Is review: A novel limns the life of Pakistan’s first Nobel-winning physicist

30 Sept 2024 2:15 AM

Marjan Kamali-The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran review: Life, defiance and struggle of Iran’s memory keepers

7 Sept 2024 1:00 AM

Zia Haider Rahman

Why Zia Haider Rahman’s In The Light of What We Know is the best English novel from Bangladesh

14 Aug 2024 1:55 AM

JK Rowling

Five non-Harry Potter books by JK Rowling that show her versatility as a writer

31 July 2024 12:00 PM

Mother India

Mother India review: The portrait of a country in the grip of right-wing propaganda

27 July 2024 5:20 AM

N. Kalyan Raman interview: ‘Devibharathi’s fiction engages with politics and culture’

N. Kalyan Raman interview: ‘Devibharathi’s fiction engages with politics and culture’

25 July 2024 1:00 AM

Lootaloot

Lootaloot review: Marathi writer Baburao Bagul’s stories capture the misery of the marginalised

24 July 2024 1:00 AM

A Firestorm in Paradise

A Firestorm in Paradise review: Love in the time of the 1857 Uprising

2 July 2024 1:00 AM

The Spoiled Heart By Sunjeev Sahota

The Spoiled Heart review: Class versus identity debate propels Sunjeev Sahota’s novel

20 May 2024 1:00 AM

Alice Munro

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian master of the short story form, dies at 92

14 May 2024 8:30 PM

Choice by Neel Mukherjee

Choice review: Neel Mukherjee’s novel of social ideas tackles individual agency with flair

11 May 2024 5:00 AM

Novels by women

World Book Day: 15 must-read novels by Indian women writers

23 April 2024 4:00 PM

Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life

Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life review: A novel limns the quest for self-actualisation

19 April 2024 1:00 AM

E. M. Forsters A Passage to India

100 Years of ‘A Passage to India’: A century of tenuous UK-India relations

3 April 2024 1:00 AM

The Saint of Bright Doors-The Federal

The Saint of Bright Doors: In this Sri Lankan sci-fi novel, a man rewrites the world

26 March 2024 11:30 AM

Anuja Chauhan-Murder Mubarak

Anuja Chauhan interview: ‘I like to write about places that I have access to’

24 Feb 2024 1:00 AM

Teju Cole

Tremor: Teju Cole’s trembling reflections on blackness in the history of art

19 Jan 2024 1:00 AM

Requiem in Raga Janki review: Portrait of an artist, who was stabbed 56 times

Requiem in Raga Janki review: Portrait of an artist, who was stabbed 56 times

3 Jan 2024 1:00 AM

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