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Lost in the City
Madhavankutty Pillai
The sequel to Shantaram is irredeemably caught between pulp and literary
Everywoman Extraordinaire
This passionate tribute to Smita Patil celebrates the actress’ great instinct and intensity
Editor’s Cut
From Mukesh Ambani’s first interview to Manmohan Singh’s transformation, TN Ninan has had a ringside view of the India story. Now he has captured it between the covers
Forever Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk maps a man and a metropolis in his new novel that ticks every box of great fiction
The Novel and Its Discontents
Reading Marlon James’ Booker winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, a fireball of a novel, and wondering: What’s it that makes fiction great?
Urban Dystopia
Margaret Atwood’s take on freedom versus security gets lost amid a pack of Elvis Presley sex robots
Slapdash Sexuality
A thoughtless potboiler of a novel that doesn’t ask moral questions of its characters
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