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Nostalgia Trip

Sharon Fernandes

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

From Chennai with Love

Goddesses and divas populate this first fiction

The Beautiful Blood Ceremony

What the best of Japanese noir says about democracy, authenticity and the nation

Alone and Away

Taslima Nasrin’s unending search for home

Lost in Style

Deploying metafiction at the cost of emotional poignancy

The Original Rebel

Krishna Sobti’s novel looks at tradition and modernity through a non-conformist lens

Alain de Botton: The Post-Romantic

Alain de Botton returns to fiction and redeems love from romance. The philosopher novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

I Know What You Will Read This Summer

An American master on mortality, a Nobel laureate on New Russia and more. Bibliotherapy for the summer

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