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Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

The delicacy of observation and lightness of prose on offer here makes for pleasant reading, but often resembles the...

4 Oct 2025 12:49 PM IST

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Markovits’ writing brings out best of all the narrator’s character

27 Sept 2025 1:11 PM IST

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

It would have been nice if this memoir was only about her relationship with Rayya, who was an extremely colourful...

27 Sept 2025 1:07 PM IST

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

The book and its author do keep the flag flying for those who believe the world should be a far more just and equitable...

27 Sept 2025 12:56 PM IST

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

: Kejriwal's experiment with soft Hindutva failed to take root. “Despite calibrated attempts to appropriate religious...

20 Sept 2025 3:53 PM IST

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

It is a bleak setting, but the slow-paced engagement with memories, slipping identities and metaphors is presented by...

20 Sept 2025 3:19 PM IST

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Though this his sparest work yet, there is a miraculous ease, a literary sleight-of-hand, with which the author...

20 Sept 2025 3:07 PM IST

Book Review | Snake Mythologies from Around the World

Book Review | Snake Mythologies from Around the World

The book is a formidable exploration of the practice of ophiolatry (the worship of serpents), myths and symbols ranging...

13 Sept 2025 1:31 PM IST

Book Review | Wit, Wounds and Gated Lives

Book Review | Wit, Wounds and Gated Lives

Over 250 pages, Joseph offers sharp vignettes of hypocrisy and quiet despair, expanding his theory of India

13 Sept 2025 1:12 PM IST

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage of Chick Lit, Social Satire

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage of Chick Lit, Social Satire

An amusing social satire with strong feminist characters, this novel is a breezy read

13 Sept 2025 1:05 PM IST

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

This mapping of technological innovations is an allegory for the complexities of cultures, competition and collaboration...

6 Sept 2025 1:25 PM IST

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

What sets Shikhar Dhawan’s ghosted autobiography apart is the honesty with which he has recounted his life as well as...

6 Sept 2025 1:17 PM IST