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    Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions UnaskedBooks
    Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

    George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry...

    14 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

    Book Review | What Ails Private Hospitals: A Full DiagnosisBooks
    Book Review | What Ails Private Hospitals: A Full Diagnosis

    In setting about the unenviable task of explaining the wide tangle of acronyms, medical procedures and legislations...

    18 April 2026 10:48 PM IST

    Book Review | In Familiar Rooms, Fresh WondersBooks
    Book Review | In Familiar Rooms, Fresh Wonders

    The sentences in this novel are crafted with a surgeon’s hand. In some stretches, its bloodless proficiency reminded me...

    28 March 2026 12:56 PM IST

    Book Review | An Expedition Weighed Down by Good IntentionsBooks
    Book Review | An Expedition Weighed Down by Good Intentions

    Though it is gratifying to observe the adeptness of the plotting and scale at which it is all accomplished, the...

    28 Feb 2026 1:23 PM IST

    Book Review | A Master’s New Avatar Fails to GripBooks
    Book Review | A Master’s New Avatar Fails to Grip

    In Ghost-Eye, his first work of fiction in seven years and a sequel in more than just spirit to his previous novels The...

    10 Jan 2026 1:31 PM IST

    Book Review | An Account of Life in the Hills of RanikhetBooks
    Book Review | An Account of Life in the Hills of Ranikhet

    Anuradha Roy’s first non-fiction work – an account of life in the hills of Ranikhet – blends memoir and nature-writing...

    27 Dec 2025 1:07 PM IST

    Book Review | City on the Brink, Scantly ImaginedBooks
    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 1:42 PM IST

    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

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