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
Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf
What the best of Japanese noir says about democracy, authenticity and the nation
Krishna Sobti’s novel looks at tradition and modernity through a non-conformist lens
Alain de Botton returns to fiction and redeems love from romance. The philosopher novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair
An American master on mortality, a Nobel laureate on New Russia and more. Bibliotherapy for the summer