Books

An Endless Spiral

Smriti Daniel

Two women writers turn an unflinching eye to the lasting fallout of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict

2014 BOOKS REVIEW: OPEN reviewers on their favourites

Rajni George

Faiza Sultan Khan, Tunku Varadarajan, Burhan Wazir, MJ Akbar, Mini Kapoor, Jug Suraiya

2014 BOOKS REVIEW: EDITOR’S CHOICE

S Prasannarajan

The way things were • The zone of interest • The Myth of the strong leader • Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

2014 REVIEW: BOOKS

Rajni George

Close to home • We are completely beside ourselves • How to build a girl • Mecca: The sacred city

Holiday Reading

Rajni George

America’s favourite non-hero’s swansong, an odd new tale from Ben Okri, a fashion diva’s gorgeous biography and the last of Follett’s Century trilogy

‘Of Course We Killed Him’

Srinath Raghavan

A nuanced new narrative of the Bangladesh Liberation War looks closely at Mujibur Rahman’s assassin

Flight of Fancy

Arshia Sattar

Yet another Delhi book revives the glorious near past—but fails to soar

‘Some of My Friends Say All My Work Is Fiction’

Rajni George

The well known Delhi-based sociologist who has written a whodunnit set in America under a pseudonym

Show Me the Money

Rajni George

Banker-turned-writer Ravi Subramanian talks about his latest book, the first ever bitcoin-thriller, God is a Gamer, and the life of a writer of commercial fiction

Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine