Book Reviews
Searching For Home
Vineetha Mokkil
Jahnavi Barua’s novel delves into the complexities of familial bonds in strife-ridden Assam
Dead Ends and Blind Alleys
SD Tucker chronicles the strangest scientific experiments from the wreckage of history
The Novel Virus
Lawrence Wright’s new thriller shows with chilling prescience how the world will reckon with a pandemic
Truth-Finding Mission
A gripping reportage of love and the politics of hate
Inside Track
An anecdote-rich but incomplete account by Montek Singh Ahluwalia into India’s economic reforms
Ritual and Catharsis
Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
On the Beach
A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala
Book of Forgetting
In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss
Search for Home
In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland
Neither Polemical nor Prejudicial
A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS
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