EM Forster

Barabar Caves: The Repassage

Tansy Troy

A hundred years ago, EM Forster, in his most celebrated novel A Passage to India, wrote about the Marabar Caves. Tansy Troy travels to Bihar’s Barabar Caves, the inspiration for Forster’s fictional setting

‘Love was the longing across an insuperable barrier’

Damon Galgut

A biographical novel reconstructs the years it took to write A Passage to India. Excerpts

Forster in Love

Devika Bakshi

Damon Galgut’s biographical novel prises from EM Forster’s writings and relationships a portrait of a writer whose work was defined by his fraught sexuality