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literature

Best of Books 2018: Poetry

Sumana Roy

A biography of water, the Gita refreshed and a record of sounds

Best of Books 2018: Crime Fiction

Unreliable narrators, bear poachers, undercover Russian agents and much more

I’m Not a Traitor

A lot can be gained in translation

Henry Eliot: ‘There is something comforting about the classics when you feel uncertain about your own time’

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

The Anonymity of Greatness

The Urdu novelist who has slipped out of the pantheon

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

The Nobel laureate’s legacy has much to say to charges of amnesia about colonialism

AM Homes: Where Weird is Wonderful

AM Homes, a master of suburban Gothic noir, explores the existential question of how to live and how to be

Open Diary

Vajpayee's way with words and Pondicherry's literature festival

Deborah Levy: ‘A book without desire is a depressed book’

Deborah Levy, author of ‘living autobiographies’, feels happiest by the ocean and in a room of her own

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