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Out of Africa
Zac O’Yeah
The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic
The Original Rebel
Krishna Sobti’s novel looks at tradition and modernity through a non-conformist lens
“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”
Aatish Taseer's new novel, The Way Things Were, is an Indian classic spanning the eventful decades between the Emergency and the advent of Modi, set in Lutyens' Delhi. The novelist in conversation with the Editor of Open magazine
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mira Nair’s translation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel into cinema is riveting
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
Seventeen-year-old cartoonist Unni Chacko has jumped off a building. Nobody is able to explain why he did it. The only clues he has left behind are the cartoons and comics he has drawn, which his alcoholic father is trying to decipher. Extracts from Manu Joseph’s new novel
The Long and Short of a Story
A novel is like building a house and a short story like furnishing a room, declares Anjum Hasan, who now has both under her belt
Missing the Plot
Kunal Basu’s talent as a novelist lies well hidden in the complex maze he wanders through in this new book
Rhythm and Blues
Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel
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