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Books
‘Love was the longing across an insuperable barrier’
A biographical novel reconstructs the years it took to write A Passage to India. Excerpts
Forster in Love
Damon Galgut’s biographical novel prises from EM Forster’s writings and relationships a portrait of a writer whose work was defined by his fraught sexuality
Lamentations of a Debonair Poet
The life of Adil Jussawalla and the despair of poetry in India
‘It’s All in the Soil’
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel animates history with textures of fruit, blood and stone
Her Spiritual Crisis
I draw naked people. Sketching live models is my hobby. I have drawn over a hundred individuals from all walks of life, and Conversations in the Nude captures my tryst with nudity.
Experiments in Meritocracy
Amy Chua’s controversial new book suggests ‘outsiders’ can and do succeed in unequal America—but at what cost?
Punk Resistance in Putin’s Russia
In her new book, Russian-American writer Masha Gessen puts the spotlight on the spirit of defiance that marks Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot
The Place You Keep Going Back To
Sankarshan Thakur’s biography of Nitish Kumar is also an intimate portrait of Bihar, a state you may be forced out of but cannot really ever leave
The Advantages of Failure
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, on underachievement as a good thing
The Eternal Poet
A new biography of Sahir Ludhianvi brings to life the poet who changed the idiom of Hindi cinema lyrics
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