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Mohammed Hanif: ‘There is nothing left to satirise’

Nandini Nair

Mohammed Hanif’s new novel takes flight when a plane crashes. The author tells Nandini Nair why death is the only lover who does not betray her promise

Stephen King: A Different Kind of Literary Genius

Zac O’Yeah

A passage to the kingdom

VS Naipaul: Writing the World

Durba Chattaraj

With his shifting way of seeing, VS Naipaul articulated a new configuration of all that we know

VS Naipaul: ‘I had no set way of writing’

Roderick Matthews

Seeing, feeling, and thinking with Sir Vidia. Snatches from my conversations with the greatest writer of English prose

VS Naipaul: Severe, Savage, Sublime

S Prasannarajan

Remembering VS Naipaul (1932-2018)

Salman Rushdie, Author

Open

Here and Now

Pulp Friction

Zac O’Yeah

The problem with the domestic crime industry

‘There is Nothing Endearing About the Present Reality’

S Prasannarajan

A conversation with Salman Rushdie

Jeet Thayil: A Poet’s Fiction

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair

The Piazza and the Car Park

Amit Chaudhuri

The genius of market activism is that it doesn’t reject the terminology of literary value; it disinherits and revivifies it, making it a powerful code