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Who Will Win the Booker?

Nandini Nair

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

Shreevatsa Nevatia

He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees

A Poetic High

Neha M

Spoken-word poetry is gaining a festive momentum in India

To Be or Not to Be

Aditya Sinha

Ian McEwan’s dazzling use of his craft is not displayed fully in this Hamlet variation

Speak, Memory

Diya Kohli

When half-remembered stories from the past become shadowy foundations of the present

Rekha: Missing From the Frame

Tanul Thakur

A biography of Rekha that is rich in empathy but lacks the diva’s voice

The Race to the Final Date

Ranjit Lal

Two delightful perspectives on delaying the inevitable

Suketu Mehta: City Slicker

Nandini Nair

The chronicler of metropolises returns to fiction to tell the story of memory and displacement

Lost in Style

Janice Pariat

Deploying metafiction at the cost of emotional poignancy

Deep Within

Nandini Nair

These stories reveal the fragility of the mind and the capacity of the heart

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literature

Who Will Win the Booker?

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

A Poetic High

To Be or Not to Be

Speak, Memory

Rekha: Missing From the Frame

The Race to the Final Date

Suketu Mehta: City Slicker

Lost in Style

Deep Within

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