Voyaging into the bizarre with elan, TC Boyle offers no redemption but stunning wordplay and surprising insights.
The humour and quiet elegance do work. But two-time Booker winner Peter Carey packs in so many characters and subplots that you’re exhausted.
Aatish Taseer’s dilemma is that he writes his best when he is trying to be Naipaul, but he clearly needs to move beyond Naipaul and find his own voice.
Santosh Desai is a top-of-the-class ad guy, no doubt about that. And he lives up to the expectations with a series of essays that entertain, surprise and evoke nostalgia
The story of Ranjit Singh, whose military genius and legendary reign makes you reflect on the many what-ifs of Indian history.
Move over Chetan Bhagat. There is a new crop of BEs and MBAs churning out fiction, and not just about life at the IITs and IIMs.
Remember the fakeIPLplayer blog? It’s back as a book and it’s witty, engrossing and often rings quite true.
In casting doubt on US rescue missions, Stiglitz saves economics from autism charges.
Funny, relaxed and red blooded, Zadie Smith shows she’s much more than just a novelist.
Pavan Varma believes the liberation of our colonised mind requires us to learn from our ancient past. But did the past he envisages ever exist?