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    Book Review | Love and Longing in ’90s MalaysiaBooks
    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 1:23 PM IST

    Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?Books
    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 1:06 PM IST

    Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn ManBooks
    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
    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 1:48 PM IST

    Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal MusicBooks
    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
    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
    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 1:30 PM IST

    Book Review | In The Shallows Of Family SecretsBooks
    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 1:43 PM IST

    Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist HeroesBooks
    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 5:58 PM IST

    Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?Books
    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,...

    30 March 2025 1:58 AM IST

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

    It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical...

    22 Feb 2025 12:46 PM IST

    Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotoneBooks
    Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotone

    What do we make of disgusting literature? Aesthetic theories of art and ‘good taste’, across various...

    18 Jan 2025 12:19 PM IST

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