Ramachandra Guha’s new book portrays seven westerners who joined India’s freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s rebels and the meaning of patriotism

The meanings and methods of online hate

Bharti Kher transforms materials and textures to create works of defiance

Beloved fiction writers turn to nonfiction, celebrities turn into memoirists and historians travel in time

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Where the image ends and the self begins

The majority of this year’s list of bests comprises quieter books, those which arrived with less fanfare and left a lasting impression

From a Chinese tennis hero to a silenced #MeToo accuser

An intimate history of women searching for a more equal and dignified life

The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist tells of the persistence of grief, the deceptions of online prattle, the call of the wild, racial inequality and the triumph of the human spirit

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…