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Carlo Pizzati: Intimate Stranger

Urvashi Bahuguna

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

Anita Desai: Insider Outsider

The Mexico of Anita Desai has an Indian core that remains resonant to this day

Auteur’s Spaceship

Satyajit Ray and science fiction

JK Rowling: The Colour of Murder

Evil and redemption take centrestage as JK Rowling in the guise of Robert Galbraith returns for her fourth Cormoran Strike novel

Melodrama Galore

Love in the time of difference

Workings of the Heart

Race, law and love in two American novels

Deborah Levy: ‘A book without desire is a depressed book’

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

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