literature
And the Mountain Echoed
Madhavankutty Pillai
A meditation on existence from the shadow of the Himalayas
Love, Sex and the City
Starcrossed lovers revive Allahabad’s glory days in this charming if dated translation—and the lingering gender debate
The Second Coming
Novelist Kiran Nagarkar’s once-censored play is in print at last, with a fast-paced new screenplay
I’m the Book
In his latest outing, Karl Ove Knausgaard portrays himself as a teenager with literary ambition
The General and the Half-and-Half
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
THE INTERNATIONAL LIST
Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment
God is in the Details
An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience
Dazed and Confused
A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce
Provocateur’s Remedy
A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy
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