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Books

Our Brilliant Friend

In her Neapolitan series, Italian novelist Elena Ferrante frees herself from having to create heroic characters

Shedunnit

A lady detective who is a social worker and public trouble-shooter rolled into one

Along the White Clouds

The eternity of Himalayan pursuits

Funny Moms

Mommy memoirs are no longer about bringing up children

Who Will Win the Booker?

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.

An Epic Finale

Bibek Debroy concludes his Mahabharata series with a cosmic flourish

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees

The Day Before

A pithy account of the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka that culminated in tragedy

Misadventures of Dismal Scientists?

The origin, evolution and politics of the Economics Nobel Prize

Tree of Life

The ultimate feel-good experience

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