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Vintage engraving of the scene from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn showing Jim narrating the story of Sollermun.

Huckleberry Finn’s adventures continue

Percival Everett’s James—longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize—is more than just a retelling of the classic from the fugitive slave, Jim’s perspective.

Latha Anantharaman

Huzama Habayeb leavens the tragedies of a community with humour and hope.

Palestinian mother’s saga of navigating love, loss, and liberation

Huzama Habayeb’s novel, deftly translated by Kay Heikkinen, evokes family bonding, tenderness, and women’s resilience with a joyful clamour.

Latha Anantharaman

Readers look for some substance from Manjula Padmanabhan, but she has written a book that is dressed like chicklit and quacks like chicklit.

Bumps ahead in this Taxi ride

Old fans of Manjula Padmanabhan should probably sit out this novel and wait for the next one.

Latha Anantharaman

Migrant workers walk from the outskirts of New Delhi to their home State, Bihar, during the extended nationwide lockdown. May 13, 2020.

Playing our lives, on a loop

Raj Kamal Jha’s Patient in Bed Number 12 is as much about the COVID-19 pandemic as about other plagues seeded by us that continue to rage.

Latha Anantharaman

The idea that gardening can save the world is seductive, as is the gardeners’ measured delight in bringing a degraded hectare to friable tilth.

A fragile paradise: Review of ‘Birnam Wood’ by Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton’s dark new novel maps the landscapes of climate activism, predatory capitalism, and political smarm.

Latha Anantharaman

The voices of Ruhaba and Adil have a beauty, vulnerability and power that shatter Harding’s falsehoods.

Black on white: Review of ‘The Laughter’ by Sonora Jha

Jha’s new novel is a satire on the many fears that were born with this millennium, and it is a fearsome one.

Latha Anantharaman

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