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Lessons Unlearnt
The Uphaar tragedy highlights the Indian habit of regularising exceptional illegality
Found in Translation
Arshia Sattar’s version of the Ramayana’s final book raises questions on Rama’s actions
Books: Highlights of 2017
Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien
Books: Best of 2016
From the architecture of the gene to the oral histories of men and women in the former USSR, this year’s best books reveal what it is to be human
An Enduring Enigma
This is a necessary book about a neglected man, and it’s all the more creditable that a foreigner should have taken the trouble to write it
Dancing with Zadie Smith
Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf
Blessed and Cursed
Amruta Patil in her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata reimagines women as epic beings
Martin Amis: ‘It is Very Satisfying—Killing People’
Martin Amis talks about Donald Trump’s sexuality and Islamic fanaticism
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