Poet, novelist and critic Tabish Khair spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about his new novel 'Drown All the Refugees' and the searing questions it explores
About The Author
Vineetha Mokkil is Senior Associate Editor, Outlook. She is an alumna of New York University and the author of the book 'A Happy Place and Other Stories'. She writes on books, gender, and the interconnection between culture and the climate crisis.
Khair uses Gothic horror in his novel to paint a stark picture of the times we live in
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Booker-winning British author Julian Barnes’ 'Departure(s)' is a unique hybrid work: playful, philosophical, whimsical
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From Sisters in Arms to The Nights are Quiet in Tehran, Ruth Martin reflects on translating Shida Bazyar’s award-winning German-Iranian fiction, capturing multiple narrative voices, confronting racism and extremism in Germany, and championing multicultural stories in an increasingly polarised world.
A bittersweet love story set in Taiwan by Yáng Shuāng-zi, translated by Lin King, is awarded this year’s International Booker Prize for translated fiction.
We hear echoes of the future Aldous Huxley and George Orwell predicted in their dystopian novels, ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984’, ringing out loud and clear in the present
Historian and academic Faramerz Dabhoiwala spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about his new book ‘What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea’.
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