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Books

Best of Books 2018: Crime Fiction

Unreliable narrators, bear poachers, undercover Russian agents and much more

Best of Books 2018: Editor’s Choice

Flawed dreamers and hypnotic ideas

Best of Books 2018: My Choice

William Dalrymple | Tishani Doshi | Srinath Raghavan | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Arshia Sattar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Alternate Realties

Why the Human Rights project needs to be rescued

Henry Eliot: ‘There is something comforting about the classics when you feel uncertain about your own time’

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

Generation Forward

The future of politics in 16 compelling profiles

It’s the Ideology, Stupid!

The twists and turns of an Indian political plot

Homeward Bound

Belonging and outsider-ness in books from the Northeast

Feroze Varun Gandhi: ‘We’ve gone from medievalism to post-modernism without really having a civilisation in between’

Feroze Varun Gandhi attempts to correct the ill effects of historical processes through his tome on rural distress

Fatima Bhutto: ‘I like women who are not afraid to cut down giants’

The new novel by Fatima Bhutto returns to questions of identity and power. She talks to Shikha Kumar about the politics of imagination

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