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Deborah Levy: ‘A book without desire is a depressed book’
Tishani Doshi
Deborah Levy, author of ‘living autobiographies’, feels happiest by the ocean and in a room of her own
The Enchanted Explorer
The fabulous and the factual merge seamlessly in Shubhangi Swarup’s first novel
Benyamin: The Smell of Jasmine
The Malayalam writer Benyamin returns to the Arab Spring for his new novel
Money and Marriage
Mahesh Rao draws upon the genius of Jane Austen to tell a contemporary Delhi tale
The Untold History of Hampi
The footprints of Hindu-Muslim hybridity defy the received wisdom on the fall of Vijayanagara
Margo Jefferson: ‘You find ways to subvert White femininity in order to survive’
Margo Jefferson’s memoir about growing up as an elite African-American woman moves between femininity and feminism without getting polemical on either
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