novel

The Heart of Darkness

Jai Arjun Singh

The redemptive power of storytelling sets this novel about religious terrorism apart

Out of Africa

Zac O’Yeah

The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic

The Original Rebel

Dharminder Kumar

Krishna Sobti’s novel looks at tradition and modernity through a non-conformist lens

The Enigma of Evil

Vineet Gill

This realistic portrait of post-traumatic madness is a moral fable as well

“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”

S Prasannarajan

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

Ajit Duara

Mira Nair’s translation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel into cinema is riveting

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

Manu Joseph

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