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Book Reviews

New York Minutes

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Even with its racy plot and charming characters, Elizabeth Gilbert’s new novel leaves one cold

City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
Days of My China Dragon /
Days of My China Dragon
Chandrahas Choudhury
Mumbai Mouthful

Meditative portraits of a small business in a big city

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The New Word Order

Fan fiction writes another age of female liberation

The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution /
The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
The Age of Dissent

How the Hungry Movement of Bengal in the 60s mirrored the Beat Generation

Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Snipers Who Broke ISIS /
Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Snipers Who Broke ISIS
Azad Cudi
War for Peace

Memoir of a Kurdish sniper who helped stop the ISIS in Syria

A Short History of the New India /
A Short History of the New India
KS Komireddi
The Fall of Eden

The arc of India’s descent from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi

Second Night
Rajiv Dogra
Triumph of Love

Longing and loss in Mussoorie

Doab Dil

Sarnath Banerjee
The Reckoning

Modern travails told in a graphic novel form

Journeys: A Poet’s Diary

Hamish Hamilton
AK Ramanujan: A Poet’s Testament

A new volume of AK Ramanujan’s unpublished notebooks reveals the struggles and sagacity behind greatness

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