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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

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

In Search of the Next Literary Bestseller

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

Fall Fiction

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

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

Manufacturing Hope

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

The Hermit

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

Blood on the Border

A new crop of writers are adapting the the tried-and-tested spy thriller to an Indian context, for an Indian readership, with a familiar villain

The Binge Writer

Madeline Miller can write for 14 hours a day and still maintains she does not deserve to be called a writer. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2012

Finding Fact in Fiction

Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements

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