Book Recommendations
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
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Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’
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Sunday book pick: The fabulous life of a Bombay spinster in Eunice de Souza’s ‘Dangerlok’
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Sunday book pick: Being young and bored in Carson McCullers’s novel ‘The Member of the Wedding’
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Sunday book pick: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita’ is the perfect introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre
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Sunday book pick: ‘Farewell Song’, Rabindranath Tagore’s metafiction novel meant to silent critics
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Sunday book pick: ‘Spring Garden’ is a sobering novel about what uninspiring buildings do to a city
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Sunday book pick: We do not need to know everything about the Andamanese, says ‘The Last Island’
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Sunday book pick: The poems in WH Auden’s ‘Another Time’ flaunt his talents as a storyteller
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Soldier Sailor’, the horrors of being a mother to your child (and husband)
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Thirst’, Jesus is god’s son, a miracle worker, and a man who was killed
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Sunday book pick: Why the children’s classic ‘The Wind in the Willows’ inspires joy in adults
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Sunday book pick: Through tales of food and desire, ‘Butter’ depicts a deeply misogynistic Japan
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Sunday book pick: Annie Ernaux’s writerly and personal selves come together in ‘Exteriors’
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Sunday book pick: A train ride ends in murder in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’
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Sunday book pick: Shakespeare in Palestine in Isabella Hammad’s ‘Enter Ghost’
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Sunday book pick: Lin Xinwu’s 1984 novel ‘The Wedding Party’ reveals the true cost of a wedding
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Sunday book pick: A marriage made in hell in Jibanananda Das’s 1970 novel ‘Malloban’
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Sunday book pick: The long hours of an endless night in ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
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Sunday book pick: The perils of artificial intelligence in the 1966 novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’
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Sunday book pick: A forensic report of urban loneliness in Olivia Laing’s ‘The Lonely City’
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Sunday book pick: A Jewish refugee in Bombay in Anita Desai’s novel ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’
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Sunday book pick: The weight of unknowable grief in Elena Ferrante’s debut novel, ‘Troubling Love’
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Sunday book pick: The darkly comic and sex-talking novel ‘Big Swiss’ tells women to take it easy
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Sunday book pick: A luckless love in ‘Kairos’, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
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Sunday book pick: In Geetanjali Shree’s ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’, women defy definitions
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Sunday book pick: Yukio Mishima’s novel ‘After the Banquet’ presents the tomb that is marriage
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Stet’, a fascinating portrait of the English publishing industry and its stars
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Such a Long Journey’, how an ordinary heart travels in turbulent times
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How Eve Babitz’s book ‘Sex and Rage’ changed my life
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If you liked Netflix’s ‘The Chair’, read these four novels set in English departments
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Four Haitian-authored novels that guide readers through the country’s history and reality
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Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works, now translated into English
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Why it’s difficult to discover good books though they are out there