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Book Reviews

The First Draft

Zareer Masani

An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions

Whereabouts /
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Author of Anywhere

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, written in Italian and translated into English, refreshes her themes of solitude and belonging with renewed vigour

Leave the World Behind /
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Edge of the Abyss

A middle-class American family confront uncomfortable truths in a time of crisis

A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump /
A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump
Meenakshi Ahamed
Portraits of Power

The India-US relationship as a study in leadership

India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present /
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present
Shivshankar Menon
Living With China

New Delhi has a chance to build coalitions of the willing to shape Beijing’s behaviour

First Person Singular /
First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami | Translated by Philip Gabriel
Haruki Murakami: Enchanter Emeritus

The familiar and the fantastical permeate a new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami

1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness /
1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness
Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya
Once Upon a Time at the Oval

The twin series triumphs in England and the West Indies in 1971 were the ‘Renaissance of Indian Cricket’

Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir  /
Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir
Kobad Ghandy
The Principled Life of Kobad Ghandy

Memoirs of a man who was born into affluence but chose a life of struggle

Trail of the Tiger Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray: A Journey /
Trail of the Tiger Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray: A Journey
Radheshyam Jadhav
The Son’s Rise

Uddhav Thackeray’s unexpected survival and success

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