fiction

The Originality of Evil

Shylashri Shankar

The best of crime fiction tells us that murder is sometimes the solution to greater malevolence

Three-Seven-Seven And the Blue Gay Gene

"The case history of 377 is gripping; it reflects what we have thought about morality over the last 150 years.If you ask me, it really is time to move on, turn the page"

Forever Istanbul

Charmy Harikrishnan

Orhan Pamuk maps a man and a metropolis in his new novel that ticks every box of great fiction

To Break an Absurd Record

Smriti Daniel

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

In Search of the Next Literary Bestseller

Rajni George

Who will be the next superstar in fiction? Rajni George reports from the publishing world

The return of a Latin American literary idol, a Holocaust morality tale, pre-WWI England, stories from the shadowlands, a Victorian saga of closeted lesbians and a gay parallel narrative in seventeenth-century Amsterdam

Small Things for Empathy

asanna

How literary fiction makes one more empathetic and better at reading people

Manufacturing Hope

Devika Bakshi

Lavanya Sankaran’s aptly named first novel The Hope Factory is the latest in formulaic fiction from the Subcontinent

The Hermit

Gunjeet Sra

After years of putting off a lifelong passion, Kishwar Desai finds she must shut herself off from the world in order to write—but the world still seeps into her writing