Another stark beauty from Ireland’s literary queen, Murakami’s literary debut in English for the first time, a sad and lengthy tale of a band of brothers and Coetzee’s experiments with truth
Why the platitudes of our time are not an alternative to the religious vision of the Bhagavad Gita
This former RAW chief’s pacy account on Kashmir is not consistently insightful but his pessimism is not off the mark
A new history of India’s role in World War II vivifies its players in this scholarly account
Sudhir Kakar on his new novel about Bhartrihari, the great Sanskrit poet of love
These essays strengthen Amitava Kumar’s engagement with the ‘euphorically’ real