novels

Many Epiphanies

Nandini Nair

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel based around four women tells of larger truths

Mario Vargas Llosa, the colossus of the Latin American novel

Ullekh NP

Peru-born literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025) was a bold, tireless explorer of human nature

Monkey Business

Arunima Mazumdar

A dream-like sequence, set around two boys, of the history of Bangladesh

Truth Serum

Madhulika Liddle

A first novel explores the lies of others

‘I write more with my ears than my eyes,’ says Mohsin Hamid

Nandini Nair

Mohsin Hamid’s new book upends the idea of racial categories. He speaks about why his novels are love stories

‘I want to treat facts of history as sacred,’ says Navtej Sarna

Nandini Nair

Navtej Sarna’s new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction

The Maximalist

Aditya Mani Jha

SB Divya’s science-fiction novel, set in 2095, pits humans against Artificial Intelligence. The author in conversation with Aditya Mani Jha

Begin Again

Arunima Mazumdar

What happens when 13 people quit societal norms and live on a deserted island for 25 years?

The Normality of Evil

Nandini Nair

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle