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The Case of the Missing Writer
Gyan Prakash
In the midst of his research at the British Library in London, historian Gyan Prakash stumbled upon an incomplete manuscript of an action-packed thriller written by a Bombay-based Parsi in 1927. Here, Prakash tells the fascinating tale of how he tried to solve the mystery of the author’s identity as well as how the novel ends
Bias Busters of the World Unite
But this book was evidently written for ‘good people’ in America. Don’t count on it to do India any favour
Nothing Lush, Soft or Verdant
Taiye Selasi’s first novel runs circles around the ‘African story’ you’re used to
I Was That Girl Who Was Supposed To Be Dead
In her memoir, Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, talks about how her work in the Congo and her battle with uterine cancer enabled her to re-inhabit her body. In the following excerpt, she tells us how drugs almost destroyed her—and how pot might have helped save her life
Behind Every Great Book
David Ebershoff is the editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books this year. He speaks of his obsession with the manuscripts he works on
The Man Who is Afraid of a Skullcap
Two books on Narendra Modi establish why it is silly to hope that the bigot will ever be any less bigoted
Blood on the Border
A new crop of writers are adapting the the tried-and-tested spy thriller to an Indian context, for an Indian readership, with a familiar villain
The Conversationalist
Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, the inevitability of acknowledging the reader, and how his writing has been changed by fatherhood
Debjani and Darcy
Anuja Chauhan gives us the kind of romance we fantasise—without spelling out the sex
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