Ian McEwan returns in top form with The Children Act. The novelist talks about mortality, the news cycle and the future of Scotland

Japanese introverts, aircraft carriers, celebrity interviews, new dope on a legendary double agent, contemporary feminism 101, showgirls in 30s San Francisco, Spain after Franco and the Resistance

Jeremy Seabrook, a lyrical narrator of socioeconomic conflict, takes us to the factories of Bangladesh and England

Nayantara Sahgal talks about her life, work and the ever-changing idea of India on the eve of a new book and biography

An enjoyable erotic adventure, cooked up right at the publisher’s office, takes us directly to the young loins of politically correct urban India

Once a bank officer, the determined herbal king of Kondagaon shakes money from trees in the Maoist strongholds of Bastar through a collective of 20,000 Tribals whose business looks to expand worldwide. The man and his empire

This elegant novel about young people in Delhi is a quietly subversive commentary on urban Indian life—and one of the most original voices in recent Indian fiction

Conservationist Vivek Menon on charismatic mammals, environmental awareness and the urgent need for land securement

The Indian nurse stands by the side of the wretched and the remote, from Saudi Arabia to Senegal. With the world’s attention on the 46 nurses who returned home last week, India’s Nightingales continue to fly to foreign shores

Stretching from Partition through recent violence against women, the work of Amar Kanwar is a constant conversation with history. The reclusive artist explains why