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Deborah Levy: ‘A book without desire is a depressed book’

Tishani Doshi

Deborah Levy, author of ‘living autobiographies’, feels happiest by the ocean and in a room of her own

Mumbai Notebook

In memory of VS Naipaul and Tushna Dallas

The Enchanted Explorer

The fabulous and the factual merge seamlessly in Shubhangi Swarup’s first novel

India Infinite

In search of the nation

Let’s Talk

Is there an argumentative Islam?

Benyamin: The Smell of Jasmine

The Malayalam writer Benyamin returns to the Arab Spring for his new novel

Money and Marriage

Mahesh Rao draws upon the genius of Jane Austen to tell a contemporary Delhi tale

The Untold History of Hampi

The footprints of Hindu-Muslim hybridity defy the received wisdom on the fall of Vijayanagara

Margo Jefferson: ‘You find ways to subvert White femininity in order to survive’

Margo Jefferson’s memoir about growing up as an elite African-American woman moves between femininity and feminism without getting polemical on either

The Art of Dreaming

Stories of memory and migration

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