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The Last Sigh of the Absolute Lover

S Prasannarajan

An ageing memoirist returns to the saddest of love stories in The Only Story, the new novel by Julian Barnes

Nature’s Myths

Foreign natives and native exiles in verse

Woes of a Warrior

The prince who took on the East India Company for the era’s biggest port city

MBIFL18: Life and Letters

A literary festival on the palace grounds gives Thiruvananthapuram a new cultural elan

Leila Slimani: The New Global Literary Star

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

Triple Deception

Masters of the genre tell tales of espionage and revenge

She Power

Drawing the intimate and the taboo with wit and wisdom

Spotting Chatwin and Other Delights in Jaipur

Tishani Doshi keeps an ear out at the world’s biggest literary carnival

Gender and Geography

Being feminine is so natural in this celebration of the Northeast

National Portrait

Meghnad Desai holds a mirror to the oneness of India’s multiple identities

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