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Book Review | City on the Brink, Scantly ImaginedBooks and Art
Book Review | City on the Brink, Scantly Imagined

There are times when this works to good effect, as in Majumdar’s previous novel where we follow a PT teacher as he...

6 Dec 2025 1:23 PM IST

Book Review | Love and Longing in ’90s MalaysiaBooks and Art
Book Review | Love and Longing in ’90s Malaysia

The author, Tash Aw, has been a prize-list regular since his debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, made the longlist...

22 Nov 2025 12:14 PM IST

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?Books and Art
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 | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn ManBooks and Art
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 | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-eseBooks and Art
Book Review | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-ese

The inward-looking pieces direct the reader’s curiosity back to the short-lived fascinations of personality

30 Aug 2025 1:23 PM IST

Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal MusicBooks and Art
Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

The best stories in the collection arrive at the very end, as if the writer were warming up with every passing effort

6 July 2025 10:06 AM IST

Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal MusicBooks and Art
Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

Lindsay Pereira’s first two novels were both set in Mumbai, the city where he grew up. His debut novel, Gods and Ends,...

28 Jun 2025 4:05 PM IST

Book Review | The Radicalism of Jesus Christ Portrayed AffectinglyBooks and Art
Book Review | The Radicalism of Jesus Christ Portrayed Affectingly

Malayalam author Benyamin shot to prominence among English-reading circles when he was awarded the 2014 JCB Prize for...

14 Jun 2025 1:06 PM IST

Book Review | In The Shallows Of Family SecretsBooks and Art
Book Review | In The Shallows Of Family Secrets

Even as Govil sensitively renders the inner life of these characters, the orbit of their every day is left unrealised

17 May 2025 1:26 PM IST

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist HeroesBooks and Art
Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 5:26 PM IST

Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?Books and Art
Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?

The Sri Lankan civil war, fought across nearly three decades, is said to have claimed up to a hundred thousand lives,...

29 March 2025 4:10 PM IST

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’Books and Art
Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

Certain essays repeat each other, others oscillate across ideas with decades in between

22 Feb 2025 12:32 PM IST

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