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Mirza Waheed: The Writer of Small Things

Nandini Nair

Mirza Waheed in his new novel excavates the grey area between complicity and consent while exploring the banality of evil

Masculine Feminine

An investigation of how modern male writers depict women in short stories

Markus Zusak: The Story so Far

Australian author Markus Zusak tells Bhavya Dore about the aftermath of a bestseller success and the joys of a new work

Reality Bites

A psychedelic trip into the abyss

Forever Young

Ruskin Bond and the magic of childhood

Rachel Kushner: ‘For me, judgement is a wall and understanding is on the other side of that wall’

Issues of visibility and invisibility form the crux of Rachel Kushner’s bold and heartbreaking novels

Carlo Pizzati: Intimate Stranger

Being an Italian son-in-law in India

Gary Shteyngart: ‘I love characters in decline’

The new novel by Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success is more ouch-funny than ha-ha funny

The Plot Thickens

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel has his trademark cliffhangers

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