novel

Dan Brown’s Inferno

arindam

The publisher Double Day is printing four million copies of the book to start

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

Sohini Chattopadhyay

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

Arshia Sattar

Kunal Basu’s talent as a novelist lies well hidden in the complex maze he wanders through in this new book

Rhythm and Blues

Rahul Pandita

Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel

Experiments with the Novel

Tabish Khair

A mix of long fiction, travel writing, fictionalised autobiography and history, Rahul Bhattacharya fashions a different kind of a novel

Writer Unblocked

Aastha Atray Banan

Writing a Mills & Boon novel rekindled a romance in Aastha Atray Banan’s life—the one with words. For, it finally allowed her to let go of the fear of being judged as a writer

The Memory Game

Parvati Sharma

A favourite for the Man Booker prize this year, Alan Hollinghurst’s country house novel may appear oddly familiar to Indian readers of English literature

How I wrote my 500 page novel set in ancient Greece without being there

Aniruddha Bahal

‘The Emissary’ takes you to Ancient Greece at the time of Alexander the Great through the tale of a young renegade who ends up with a role in shaping Greek destiny. How the idea took seed, though, is another story