New books on the shelves

Portrait of a marriage, spies, South Asian art, moving images, and more.

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Forging freedom

In this experimental novel, women fight their way out of silence and get their voices heard.

Knowledge-keeper of Nagaland

Remembering the poet, fiction-writer, and ethnographer Temsula Ao (1945-2022).

Tracing citizen involvement in ecology issues

A look at various projects that harnessed people’s power to expand subject matter knowledge.

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Coming of age in 1950s Kerala

An intimate look at how the observed world and the imagined world meet in a writer’s head.

Forged in fire

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie is an intense, almost forensic, look at the anatomy of friendship.

Ranjana Sengupta

Strikingly slow

J.K. Rowling’s latest novel starring Cormoran Strike is high on pyrotechnics and low on suspense.