Lives and Times

Long Shadows of the Past

Black Snow | Indigenous Continent | American Midnight | Fight Like Hell | Legacy of Violence | Stalin’s Library | The Lighthouse of Stalingrad | The Hangman and His Wife | Mussolini in Myth and Memory | Interpreting | Photographs and the Practice of History

The Memory Wars

NIF: Idea to Book

Eleven recipients are awarded The New India Foundation’s prestigious non-fiction writing grant

Best of 2020 Books: Non-Fiction: Our Maladies

The Hidden Hand | The Story of China | The Ratline |Agent Sonya | The Habsburgs | The Nine Lives of Pakistan

Celebrating Differences

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Red Pill | Vesper Flights

Shashi Tharoor

Member of Parliament and author

The World Is What it Is

Economy and the environment, gender and justice—the big questions of the day

Books: Highlights of 2017

Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien

Alice in Blunderland

While Alice Albinia, the non-fiction writer, refuses to tell a well-worn tale, Albinia the novelist succumbs easily to reductive depictions