Talking Books
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‘Chinaki Chuburi’: An Assamese queer novel that experiences life outside binaries
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‘Logic in a Popular Form’: When Bengal’s syncretic traditions countered orthodox religious practices
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Shipwrecked in a time loop: Solvej Balle’s ‘On the Calculation of Volume’ plays a long game
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‘Fascist Yoga’ is an engaging critique of how bodies, belief systems, and power interact
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Interview: Could the spiritual leadership of the Muslim world have shifted towards India?
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‘Light and Thread’ by Han Kang: A necessary counterforce that values silence and the ‘unsaid’
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The question of anachronism in Romila Thapar and Namit Arora’s new book, ‘Speaking of History’
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‘Glyph’ by Ali Smith: An exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to ‘Gliff’
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‘Vigil’ by Booker Prize winner George Saunders: A knock-off Pynchon without the punchline
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‘Bhupen Khakhar’: The genius of the iconic Sunday painter is reimagined in this Gujarati biography
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‘A time of chaos and delusion’: Zeenath Khan on her new novel set during the annexation of Hyderabad
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Booker Prize winner: How does David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ portray working-class masculinity?
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Former Prince Andrew’s biographer predicts ‘lots more to come’, after years charting his vices
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‘Heat and Dust’ at 50: The ideas of India in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Booker Prize-winning novel
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What’s missing in Arundhati Roy’s memoir: A daughter’s rage and true forgiveness
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Building bridges: A new book explores Indo-French literary exchange in the works of five writers
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‘The Chief Minister and the Spy’: AS Dulat and Farooq Abdullah’s friendship quietly created history
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Harper Lee’s unpublished stories are not ‘thrilling’ – but offer insight into a literary legend
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‘A Short History of the Gaza Strip’ takes a long view of today’s conflict
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‘The Life of Violet’: Three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius sparks to life
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‘107 Days’: Kamala Harris’s memoir reveals her ‘ideal’ vice president – and why she thinks she lost
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‘Twilight’ at 20: The theology of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire trilogy
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Booker Prize shortlist: Novels (mostly) about middle age that are anything but safe and comfortable
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‘All the Way to the River’: Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir is wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf
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Scholar-activist Ismat Mehdi writes of life in and beyond Hyderabad in her memoir ‘I Almost Wasn’t’
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‘The Mad’ by Ignatius Mabasa: African novels are being translated into English in a bold new trend
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‘I Found Myself’: Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz dreams of political freedom and anxieties
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‘Turning to Stone’: In Marcia Bjornerud’s memoir, the stories of rocks intertwine with her own life
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‘What Kept You?’: A Muslim feminist’s debut novel rebels against the suffocation of safety
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WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war
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‘Weathering’: How geological limits help us reflect on our own tricky relationship with boundaries
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‘Disrupted City’: Reading a Lahore of the imagination, flesh and blood, a city exiled from itself
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Pulitzer Prize for biography: ‘Every Living Thing’ charts the tension between two types of ‘genius’
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Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for making us cry. But, ‘Never Let Me Go’ should make us angry
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‘Parting’ by Sebastian Haffner: A forgotten German novel of the early 1930s that became a bestseller
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Bonnets, speech bubbles, ‘cheeky easter eggs’: A sophisticated graphic biography of Jane Austen
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What ‘Timefulness’ by Marcia Bjornerud taught writer Janice Pariat about Earth’s temporal rhythms
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‘How to Lose Your Mother’: Molly Jong-Fast’s sizzling memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica
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Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her new memoir reveals her as a very special writer
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Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it
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‘Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution’: How caste can be a conduit of identity and revolution
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‘The Book of Guilt’: What if Hitler were assassinated and World War II ended in compromise?
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‘The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May
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Should Joan Didion’s therapy notes to her husband about their daughter have been published?
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‘Kitchen Confidential’ at 25: Anthony Bourdain revealed high-end chefs as rock-star pirates
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‘Teru’: Sahitya Akademi-winning Kannada novel questions uncritical acceptance of religious ritualism
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Kalimpong: India, China, and a history of espionage and political intrigue in ‘the harbour of Tibet’
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Ten years of ‘A Little Life’: Why is Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘trauma porn’ novel still so popular?
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How the real murders behind Asako Yuzuki’s hit novel ‘Butter’ exposed Japanese media’s misogyny
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The cost of lost integrity in Osama Siddique’s ‘Ghuroob-e-Shehr Ka Waqt’ and ‘Snuffing Out the Moon’
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Memory, history and spirit of truth in ‘The Sense of an Ending’ and ‘Nehru and the Spirit of India’
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How do overconfident politicians hurt their country’s people? A behavioural scientist finds out
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‘Mornings With My Cat Mii’ joins other Japanese novels that confront the absurdities of modern life
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‘The Inseparables’: Simone de Beauvoir’s novella speaks of the crushing weight borne by women
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‘Sugar, Smoke, Song’: Assamese writer Reema Rajbanshi addresses discrimination in India and US
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How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Ibis Trilogy’ and ‘Smoke and Ashes’
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Nobel laureate Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ offers us a new vocabulary on illness and sickness
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Why former Chief Justice of India AM Ahmadi’s granddaughter wrote his biography
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Mirza Farhatullah Baig’s Urdu novel ‘Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama’ recreates Delhi’s lost poetic heritage
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‘Under the Bakul Tree’: This Assamese YA novel deftly addresses education and the environment
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How Tamil author Charu Nivedita has created a cult following for his books (and his persona)
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‘I believe in neither government reports nor happy literature’: A writer-translator conversation
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‘Wayel Kati’: Linthoi Chanu’s book proves that conflict is not the narrative of Manipur
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Ramachandra Guha pays a literary tribute to the oft-invisible friendship between editor and writer
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An archive project is creating a database of Indian cities in fiction – and you can contribute to it
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Why autobiographies are the most potent books to challenge what is ‘normal’
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Delhi High Court restrains publication of book on Ramdev until ‘defamatory’ parts are removed
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In the digital age, a 120-year-old library in rural Maharashtra shows that books aren’t dead
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How a Gujarati-speaking writer in Chennai became an acclaimed Tamil anthologist and bookseller
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Delhi court lifts injunction on book on yoga guru Ramdev
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Baba Ramdev book injunction pits freedom of speech against right to reputation. Which will prevail?
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Delhi court bars sale of book about Ramdev
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Here's a song written with the first lines of different books
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#BombayHectic: A graphic novel chronicling life in Mumbai made entirely with a smartphone
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Watch a German campaign to reclaim ‘Mein Kampf’ from Hitler and use it to fight racism