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Books

“It’s Like Fine French Cooking”

Michael Katakis, writer, photographer and manager of the Ernest Hemingway estate, on why people will never tire of the late writer’s works

The Impermanence of Being

In Javier Marías’ writing, nothing is sacred, no fact safe from doubt, no story left unflipped

An Encounter with a Negotiator

Stuart Diamond once negotiated himself out of the sights of a submachine gun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Negotiating well, he says, is about noticing other people

The Accidental Author

One of the country’s most popular romance writers, Ravinder Singh is as unabashed about being a writer who doesn’t read as he is about being a male writer of romances

Will the Real Irom Sharmila Stand Up?

The political activist’s poetry suggests that in many ways, she is now a victim of her own sacrifices

The Carburettor

Rajesh Parameswaran talks about his reluctance to talk about his writing—and the lasting lessons of failing quickly with short stories

The Hermit

After years of putting off a lifelong passion, Kishwar Desai finds she must shut herself off from the world in order to write—but the world still seeps into her writing

The Case of the Missing Writer

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

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