Scene Stealers

Revenge and Redemption

Black River | Exiles | Thirty Days of Darkness | Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper | The Running Grave | The Year of the Locust | The Proof of the Pudding | All the Sinners Bleed | The Mistress of Bhatia House | The Deep

States and Capital

The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

The Wall Writes Back

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe | A Kidnapped West | Beyond the Wall: East Germany | The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World | The Ruble: A Political History

Editor’s Choice

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World | PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age | A Dictator Calls | Victory City | The Year of the Locust

Best of 2023 Books: My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Manu S Pillai | Janice Pariat | Amit Chaudhuri | Jerrry Pinto | Namita Gokhale | Tishani Doshi

Lessons In Authenticity

Alone and Together

Being an Israeli has been redefined, but only just

Grit and Glory

The cricket World Cup may have ended in heartbreak, but India scaled new peaks at the Asian Games

Office Politics