Books

The Beast Inside

Vineetha Mokkil

The Booker Prize winning author writes brutally honest stories about love, loss and loneliness

Nectar in a Sieve

Vijay Nambisan

A slim but fine anthology captures the essential achievements of Tamil poetry from the Sangam period to contemporary times

Last Light

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

In Updike’s final collection of stories, published posthumously, death is a constant presence and it seems to have played an active role in his imagination

The Ever After Man

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Farahad Zama is possibly the first man to win a romance writer’s prize. So watch out Barbara Cartland

Knight Vision

TR Vivek

When an Aussie talks about cricket, the world stops to listen. But John Buchanan’s book disappoints. He envisions T20 as an Olympic sport, but has no original ideas to make this happen

The Human Jungle

Arindam Mukherjee

Readers now have access to another of Sankar’s gems, Jana Aranya, in English

The Matron’s Burden

Sudha G Tilak

Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel walks back through two centuries to reflect on the Brahmin’s burden and Tamil lineage through a feminine perspective

Nabokov’s Last in Playboy

arindam

It’s a good fit: Playboy and the author of Lolita

Desperate Motherhood

Kavery Nambisan

The burden of traditional expectations. Unscrupulous doctors. New-age medical technology. This is not Dan Brown, this is real India

Missing the Link

Hartosh Singh Bal

Ida, the 47 million-year-old primate fossil unveiled to the public a little over a month ago, was an important discovery. But not for the reasons that this book sets out to establish