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Bruce Wannell: Ode to an Orientalist

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple celebrates the wisdom and spirit of his friend—Bruce Wannell—a linguist and musician, translator and teacher

Hari Kunzru: ‘Every one of my dark fears has come true’

The world Hari Kunzru portrays in his new novel is both familiar and near-mad. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

Louise Glück: Austere Notes

The autobiographical voice of America’s leading poet wins her the Nobel Prize

Alisa Ganieva: The Caucasus Chronicler

Russian author Alisa Ganieva writes of those alienated by urbanisation and radicalisation. Her work has now found a home in India too

The Bright Spark

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, about a terrorist attack, deals with the big questions of contemporary India with a light hand

In Conversation with Lawrence Wright

‘If you can go to a protest, why can’t you go to a football game, why can’t you go to a political convention?,’ Lawrence Wright tells Nandini Nair

Festival Insider

Namita Gokhale's true fiction about the most interesting and least known characters of a lit fest

Joanna Rakoff: ‘You want the movie to be more like a poem and less like a novel’

Joanna Rakoff speaks to Rajeev Masand about watching her memoir My Salinger Year on screen and the decision to never show JD Salinger

Anuradha Bhagwati: ‘Women make incredible marksmen’

Open conversation with Anuradha Bhagwati, author and US Marine Corps veteran

The Spirit of Bombay

The liberal in his labyrinth

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