fiction

Alain de Botton: The Post-Romantic

Nandini Nair

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

Open

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

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

Upamanyu Chatterjee

"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