Mysteries for pandemic times—from a virus which is the weapon of mass destruction to a US Congressional intern caught in political intrigue
A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala
In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss
In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland
A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS
A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance
Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna
What Sherlock Holmes can tell us about surviving pandemics
Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world