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Amitav Ghosh, Author

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Vivek Shanbhag, Author

Intimate Protest

Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

Mysterious Minds

How Arthur Conan Doyle found the perfect scientific detective

Master of Silkpunk

As Chinese sci-fi goes global, another star rises

Crime and Enchantment

Reimagining the South Asian detective

Night, Sea and Death

A haunting first novel set in Pakistan of the 70s

Nostalgia Trip

A love story weighed down by an overdose of emotions

Books: Highlights of 2017

Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien

Dancing with Zadie Smith

Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf

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