A dazzling historical study portrays fourteen unusual visitors who made India home
Starcrossed lovers revive Allahabad’s glory days in this charming if dated translation—and the lingering gender debate
Novelist Kiran Nagarkar’s once-censored play is in print at last, with a fast-paced new screenplay
In his latest outing, Karl Ove Knausgaard portrays himself as a teenager with literary ambition
Men, machines and the mind—how Narendra Modi ran the campaign of a lifetime to win India. Excerpts from a new book by Open Deputy Editor
Medieval England soars and plummets in Ishiguro’s seventh novel, a fantasy tale
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment