Philip Pullman on giving a damn about offending people and the Satan within Jesus and all of us.
Philip Pullman’s is perhaps the most important novel yet of the still-young century. It’s a grand tragedy about two brothers—Jesus and Christ.
Varavara Rao’s Captive Imagination is one of the most vivid prison diaries of our time.
The Swedes actually have crime writing workshops teaching the rules of a good murder. And they’re coming to India to pass on some tips.
Warren Hastings’ home in Kolkata may soon host the world’s first interactive museum of letters.
Here comes another Bangladeshi expatriate author in English who easily qualifies as one of the finest from his country.
South Asian politics is the politics of the family. And never before have we got such a view from the inside. It’s what gives this book its wider relevance.
Diana Preston on writing Mughal thrillers with her husband, the fun of pseudonyms and ethics of fictionalising history.
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.