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Lost in Style

Janice Pariat

Deploying metafiction at the cost of emotional poignancy

Cop Land

Anita Nair’s second Inspector Gowda offering is on the horrors of child trafficking and sexual abuse

The Vagina Is Erased

An argument against commercial surrogacy

Deep Within

These stories reveal the fragility of the mind and the capacity of the heart

Mise-en-Cuisine

Eating scenes in films embody conflict or cooperation between the characters, inform or assign an individual or family’s place in society

Playing in the Dark

Aravind Adiga bats against a country ‘phixed and phucked’—like a white tiger

Look Who Is Watching

Gay Talese might be an iconic journalist, but in his latest book he is an accomplice to a pervert

Rim of Life

A story of the Indian Ocean that goes beyond the usual sword and battlefield narratives of history

Mind Games

A country house murder, the dreaded secret service in East Berlin, and a policeman in future Italy—mysteries stretch boundaries

Author of Atmospherics

Talking weather with Amitav Ghosh

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