Julian Barnes

The Garden of Forking Paths

Nandini Nair

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Best of Books 2018: Editor’s Choice

S Prasannarajan

Flawed dreamers and hypnotic ideas

The Last Sigh of the Absolute Lover

S Prasannarajan

An ageing memoirist returns to the saddest of love stories in The Only Story, the new novel by Julian Barnes

Inside the Soul of Dmitri Shostakovich

S Prasannarajan

How much does it take to be an artist under Soviet communism? Julian Barnes' exquisite portrait of a tormented musical genius

Prize Reads

Hartosh Singh Bal

This year’s Booker winner and last year’s winner of the Prix Goncourt have arrived simultaneously at Indian bookstores. Here are some good reasons to pick one over the other