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Book Reviews

Margaret Atwood: The New Testament

Rajni George

Margaret Atwood’s sequel to her cult novel is marked by the same urgency of cultural zeitgeist and prophetic resonance that made the publication of the original a literary event 34 years ago

The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
The Nickel Boys /
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Brotherhood of Broken Boys

Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys bears powerful witness to brutality and oppression that are all too real

Out of Syllabus  /
Out of Syllabus
Sumana Roy
In Search of Meaning

Poems where the tender is in conversation with the political

Caste Matters /
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde
Dalit Life and Thought

Suraj Yengde delivers lessons on caste and race with a rare liveliness

Partition Voices: Untold British Stories /
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories
Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri: Breaking the Silence

Kavita Puri chronicles the lives of migrants caught in double displacement

Sita under the Crescent Moon  /
Sita under the Crescent Moon
Annie Ali Khan
Untameable Divinity

A vivid challenge to typical narratives about women’s suffering, sacrifice and spirituality in Pakistan

Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth /
Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth
Stephen Alter
‘There’s a universal need to include nature in our spiritual imagination,’ says Stephen Alter

Stephen Alter writes an uplifting story on the mountain lore and natural history of the Himalayas. The author in conversation with Shail Desai

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