Manil Suri: ‘Mathematics can trigger an emotional response’ In conversation with the mathematician and author of ‘The Big Bang of Numbers’.
To Sri Lanka, with love Shehan Karunatilaka’s complex relationship with home infuses the stories in this book with heart.
Tree story This expansive novel’s gifts are not easy to explain but will stay with you for a long time.
Saving Angelo da Fonseca It validates his attempts to forge a hybrid art that was neither completely Western nor Indian.
The advocate vanishes This unputdownable true crime story reconstructs a 1980s’ political murder in Karnataka.
New books on the shelves A range of refreshing reads, from South Africa’s slave ship history to Ambedkar up close and personal.
SHOWCASE New books on the shelvesA family as a microcosm of modern-day India, chronicle of a Tamil encyclopaedia, and more.
Book Review Forged in fireRanjana SenguptaBest of Friends by Kamila Shamsie is an intense, almost forensic, look at the anatomy of friendship.
Book Review Strikingly slowAditya SinhaJ.K. Rowling’s latest novel starring Cormoran Strike is high on pyrotechnics and low on suspense.
Book Review Coming of age in 1950s Kerala Shahnaz HabibAn intimate look at how the observed world and the imagined world meet in a writer’s head.
National Book Awards 2022 ‘Same-sex love has always existed, and it is a part of life’Jinoy Jose PInterview with Sarah Thankam Mathews, the Indian-American writer of ‘All This Could Be Different’.
Booker Prize 2022 Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘The state will come after the defenceless’Pasan Jayasinghe‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ has won the Booker Prize 2022.
Book Review Book Review: 'Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?' by G.N. Saibaba exhibits a fearless mindDivya TrivediA new collection of letters and poems by G.N. Saibaba brings us the undefeated voice of the jailed professor.
Interview ‘Book covers not only about great image-editing skills’Devangana DashAn interview with Sunandini Banerjee, graphic artist at Seagull Books.
Book review A scholar’s midlife sojourn Mary Vidya Porselvi P. A philosophical novel about the experiences of a visiting Indian scholar in a foreign country.
Book review The South writes backVikhar Ahmed SayeedA highly readable book that serves to redress erasure of the Deccan from popular Indian history.
Book Review Pandemic in perspectiveSujoy ChakravartyIt presents an evaluation of the pandemic’s economic fallout and the efficacy of the government’s policies.
BOOK REVIEW Complex designs Peerzada AshiqThe building styles of mosques and shrines in Kashmir trace historical influences over centuries.
The Art vs Artist conundrum and the audience that is between them An effective way of taking revenge against artists is to consign them to oblivion.
SlideshowColours of desireA mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life that had deprived her of small joys in her youth.
