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The gatherings of the season
Madhavankutty Pillai
From travel and movies to books and food, a collection of all things cool this summer
The replacement thrillers
Who are the new Stieg Larssons? This season’s crime novels are bigger, badder and sometimes better
The man who wrote a poem on a non-meeting
Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work
A Graphic Recollection
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
“The history of racism varies with the decades… like fashion”
As part of a monthly conversation series organised by Open at Smoke House Deli, William Dalrymple spoke to Pavan K Varma about writing for a foreign audience, romanticising the Raj, and much else . Excerpts:
Small Things for Empathy
How literary fiction makes one more empathetic and better at reading people
No Questions Please
Unsuccessful attempts at the Berlin International Book Festival to understand how the reclusive JM Coetzee’s mind works
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