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The Novel Virus

Shylashri Shankar

Lawrence Wright’s new thriller shows with chilling prescience how the world will reckon with a pandemic

Where Harry Dates Hermione

Browsing through fanfiction on the internet has become a lockdown escape

Colson Whitehead: The Consummate Experimenter

With two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, Colson Whitehead proves to be one of the most versatile authors of his generation

Truth-Finding Mission

A gripping reportage of love and the politics of hate

Inside Track

An anecdote-rich but incomplete account by Montek Singh Ahluwalia into India’s economic reforms

Ritual and Catharsis

Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman

The New Book Order

Reimagining publishing as an essential service

The Human Cost of Air Pollution

There are links between Covid-19 and pollution. We must learn to how to live with it in a post-corona world

Knives Out

Mysteries for pandemic times—from a virus which is the weapon of mass destruction to a US Congressional intern caught in political intrigue

On the Beach

A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala

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