Nandini Nair
The idea of alienation permeates Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories
Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses provided the logical next step of my literary journey and gave me some solace in grief
The majority of this year’s list of bests comprises quieter books, those which arrived with less fanfare and left a lasting impression
Dev Patel | Jhumpa Lahiri | Virat Kohli | Jeet Thayil | Megha Majumdar | Mohanlal | Sonia Faleiro | Bose Krishnamachari | Manoj Bajpayee | Kangana Ranaut | Dhanush | Ajinkya Rahane | Jehan Daruvala | PS Vinothraj | Abhishek Poddar | Keerthik Sasidharan | Fahadh Faasil | Sumana Roy | Avni Doshi | Masaba Gupta
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, written in Italian and translated into English, refreshes her themes of solitude and belonging with renewed vigour
From Orhan Pamuk’s plague novel to Kazuo Ishiguro’s love story, from Jhumpa Lahiri’s first Italian novel to Jeet Thayil’s feminist testament
Bharati Mukherjee is at home in America—a place without hyphens
The Pulitzer-winning author finds a new but unstable address in her latest non-fiction work