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Garden Variety Crimes

Shylashri Shankar

Reading Agatha Christie and other gardening pleasures

Gibberish Galore

The enduring pleasures of nonsense stories and verse

JK Rowling: Woke Target

The Harry Potter author is being accused of transphobia for not being sufficiently gender neutral

A Poet’s Prose

Dom Moraes’ travelogue is delicious piece of literary journalism from the 1950s

Capital Noir

Delhi stories where the boundaries between pleasure and violence are disturbingly blurred

Loyalty and Longing

An immigrant’s tale in London raises ethical questions

The Future is Now

Samit Basu’s dystopian novel cleverly blurs the line between fact and fiction

Searching For Home

Jahnavi Barua’s novel delves into the complexities of familial bonds in strife-ridden Assam

Dead Ends and Blind Alleys

SD Tucker chronicles the strangest scientific experiments from the wreckage of history

The Novel Virus

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

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