The Piazza and the Car Park

Salman Rushdie: Novelist of the Now

Salman Rushdie’s new novel is an American classic with Indian ancestry

Portraits of Partition in Four Fictional Characters

Borderline figures

Noonday’s Children

Stories of new Indian youth who don't accept that they are born with a handicap of caste, village or class

Padma Lakshmi: Mind and Body

Anyone who reads Love, Loss and What We Ate realises that there is so much more to Padma Lakshmi than a couple of years spent with a famous man

Padma Purana

What adds spice to the memoirs of Padma Lakshmi, model and celebrity chef whose story stretches from conservative Madras to haute Manhattan, is the portrait of her ex-husband Salman Rushdie, ‘all arched-eyebrows’

Salman Rushdie: The Fabulist at Play

Salman Rushdie in his new novel regains the magic as he unleashes the jinn in the War of the Worlds

I know what you’ll read this summer

Ranging from old school murder mysteries and a New York City cop drama to a World War II whodunnit and a weird little railway adventure, six thrillers for this summer

The Dan Brown Code

The best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code lectures on science and religion, and why he’s adept at killing off characters, in his turn at the Penguin Annual Lecture in India

Rushdie’s Email War