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Experiments with the Novel
Tabish Khair
A mix of long fiction, travel writing, fictionalised autobiography and history, Rahul Bhattacharya fashions a different kind of a novel
A 10-to-7 Job
Hari Kunzru on how internet memes inspire him to create a whole new English, knowing when to shut off the world, and stocking up on 0.5 mm ballpoints in preparation
The Catch
On 10 November, Catch-22 turns 50. But rereading this classic still challenges sanity. So too, some of the books it seems to have inspired
Sonia, an Uncritical View
Clearly, a book for a foreign readership by an ill-informed writer. Why foist this on us?
“The longer you live somewhere, the less you see”
William Dalrymple on why he will never be able to write City of Djinns again, and on isolating himself in his world of books
His Hollow Men
Shrilal Shukla passed away last week. But his books bear witness to man’s fundamental yearning for a moral life
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