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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Even with its racy plot and charming characters, Elizabeth Gilbert’s new novel leaves one cold

Olga Tokarczuk: Killer Instinct

Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International prize in 2018. The Polish novelist is again in the running with an old-fashioned whodunnit

Icons Must Fall

Paul Zacharia’s first novel in English is a roller-coaster ride of ideas

Many Partitions

Krishna Sobti’s novelised memoir is a testament to the great writer’s formal inventiveness

All the Same

This novel shuttles between history and the present

Biography as Fiction

Devi S Laskar’s debut novel navigates present-day US with its police brutality, racial tension and immigrant angst

Nayantara Sahgal: Dissenting Note

Nayantara Sahgal tells Rajni George about a world where cruelty has become casual

Roma and the Redeemer’s Art

Sometimes it takes a maid as stoic as Cleo to scrub away the remains of Latin America’s Dirty Wars

Reality Bites

A psychedelic trip into the abyss

Rachel Kushner: ‘For me, judgement is a wall and understanding is on the other side of that wall’

Issues of visibility and invisibility form the crux of Rachel Kushner’s bold and heartbreaking novels

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