Shylashri Shankar
Anthony Bourdain’s spirit of adventure reminds us that this life, in spite of everything, can be fun
Novelist, poet and essayist, Siri Hustvedt is an intimidating figure in her books as well as in her exploration of ideas
Her literary whydunnit has won France’s highest award for fiction and international acclaim. Leila Slimani, the author of Lullaby (The Perfect Nanny in the US), discusses her art and ideas with Tishani Doshi
Sujatha Gidla is a subway conductor in New York with an Indian backstory of caste and isolation, now captured in a critically acclaimed memoir
Ruskin Bond relives his journey from the isolation of childhood to the home he found in the hills
Arundhati Roy’s second novel in twenty years retains her original magic even as it becomes an overwrought political project
A writer in a polarised world. Hari Kunzru talks about his art and politics in a conversation with Rahul Pandita
What makes this text an indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories is not just the urgency of its argument but the delightful march-past of writers