America

From America First to America Alone as Trump Rages

James Astill in Washington DC

Donald Trump retreats from the international system the US built

The Victim Politics

S Prasannarajan

Politics driven by industrial victimhood is hollow

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: The Alchemist

Urvashi Bahuguna

Aimee Nezhukumatathil turns the mundane into the magical. The Indian-American poet talks about her art and the idea of home

Titanic in a Water Tank

S Prasannarajan

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a dreamy love story, is an outsider’s film that celebrates, in pure wonderment, the rewards of cross-cultural journeys

Leila Slimani: The New Global Literary Star

Tishani Doshi

Her literary whydunnit has won France’s highest award for fiction and international acclaim. Leila Slimani, the author of Lullaby (The Perfect Nanny in the US), discusses her art and ideas with Tishani Doshi

Alyssa Ayres: ‘‘Nothing is guaranteed as India looks to its future’’

Siddharth Singh

Open Conversation with Alyssa Ayres, Senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, US

America First

Sharanya Manivannan

A family drama resonant with moral ambiguities of the time

Gary Shteyngart: This Is a Blurber to Watch

Lhendup G Bhutia

Gary Shteyngart has brought a Russian-American sensibility to literary fiction to great comic effect. He talks about his next book and the new America