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Best Books of 2017
Nandini Nair
This year threw up numerous gems from some expected but mostly unexpected corners
Intimately Joan Didion
A documentary shows why her views on cultural and moral chaos hold valuable lessons even today
The Prime Minister Who Never Was
Pranab Mukherjee’s many adventures in managing interests and egos to stabilise coalition politics
‘Playboy made sexual abuse ordinary’
The American feminist writer Catharine MacKinnon says that sexual harassment has gone from being a privilege of power to a total disgrace
CP Surendran: ‘Poetry is the handle to the door of human experience’
The poet CP Surendran in his new book finds it difficult to separate politics from literature
Gary Shteyngart: This Is a Blurber to Watch
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
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