books

Hillary Clinton: “I can play with the boys now”

Karen Blumenthal

The story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, ‘an exasperating little girl’ who wished to become an astronaut

And the Mountains Echoed

Mohit Satyanand

A journey to the Himalayas that everyone dreams of but few undertake

City as Visual Metaphor

Deepika Sorabjee

An exploration of Chandigarh brings together unexpected works and undiscovered connections

The Consort

Manu S Pillai

The story of Lalitamba Bayi and Kerala Varma is no ordinary love story. It tells of many political machinations and the slow unravelling of the matrilineal court in Travancore

The Savant from Ithaca

Siddharth Singh

Kaushik Basu’s new book bears tell-tale signs of a text that has evolved over time

The Dangerous Dozen

MJ Akbar

One misconception foisted by moral science classes is that we learn best from the lives of the worthy. There is at least as much, if not more, to be learned from excess and depravity

Get Back Jo

Nandini Nair

The Pulitzer-winning author finds a new but unstable address in her latest non-fiction work

Undercover

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

A vivid picture of war, diplomacy and covert action which suggests that contrary to general belief, the proverbial foreign hand doesn’t have a finger in every pie

Helen Macdonald: “We suffer in silence for the most part”

Nandini Nair

Helen Macdonald talks about ‘the archaeology of grief’, the influence of Shakespeare and why parrots are vindictive. Excerpts from an interview with Nandini Nair