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Drown all the refugees | Tabish Khair | HarperCollins | 248 pages | Rs. 599

In This World: Review of Tabish Khair's 'Drown All the Refugees'

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Hachette India : Villa Coco, Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco Turns Every Digression Into A Disarming Trick

BY Debanjan Dhar

HarperCollins : Karan Mahajan, The Complex

Freefalling In Delhi: Review of Karan Mahajan's 'The Complex'

BY Debanjan Dhar

Pan Macmillan India : Douglas Stuart, John of John

Douglas Stuart’s John of John Maps Inter-Generational Queerness Onto A Fraught Homecoming

BY Debanjan Dhar

Antim Aashray

In The Shadow Of Memory: Review Of Tripurari Sharan's 'Antim Aashray'

BY Ashutosh Kumar Thakur

Emily Dorio and Noah Saterstrom : Ann Patchett and Whistler

Ann Patchett’s Whistler Is A Sweet Hymn To Familial Secrets

BY Debanjan Dhar

The Last Writer of Kolkata and other stories

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Book Review: Shakti Ghoshal’s ‘The Last Writer Of Kolkata And Other Stories’

BY Aditi Chakraborty

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Departure(s): Julian Barnes Has The Last Word On Life, Love And Writing

BY Vineetha Mokkil

IMAGO : Winners of the International Booker Prize 2026 Author Yang Shuang-zi (L) and translator Lin King pose with the trophies during the award ceremony at Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom on May 19, 2026. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Culture & Society

Glimmers In The Dark: The International Booker Prize 2026 Goes To ‘Taiwan Travelogue’

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Author Amitav Ghosh

Of Fiction And Philosophy: Review Of Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost Eye

BY Akshat Upadhyay

Against Imperial Misrepresentation: Review Of Sakoon Singh’s ‘Fourteen Springs of Separation’

Culture & Society

Against Imperial Misrepresentation: Review Of Sakoon Singh’s ‘Fourteen Springs of Separation’

BY Manpreet Kaur

50 Stories -
by Paul Zacharia

What Lies Beneath: Review of Paul Zacharia’s ‘50 Stories’

Penguin Random House India

Book Review | Zoramthanga’s Memoir Stays With The Insurgency And Leaves The Peace At A Distance

BY Sangmuan Hangsing

Source: HarperCollins India : Cover of Death Comes to Matheran by Shabnam Minwalla

Death Comes To Matheran: Revisiting A ‘Perfect Accident’ That Wasn’t |Book Review

Speaking Tiger Books : Cover of First Bite Breakfast Stories from Urban India by Priyadarshini Chatterjee

The Cock Crow Meal: How Breakfast Tells The Story Of Urban India| Book Review

HarperCollins India : Vikram and Vetala - A Transformative Retelling: The prose is lush and immersive, painting cemeteries, moonlit landscapes, and tense moral gambles in vivid, colourful detail.

The King, The Corpse, And The Curse: Book Review Of Vikram And Vetala - A Transformative Retelling

BY Jinit Parmar

Book Review of The Bucket

What Lies Beneath: Book Review of The Bucket

Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari

Intimate Encounters With Unmappable, Unforgettable Places

BY Sreemanti Sengupta

Representative Image : The Architecture of Hostility: Reviewing Afshin Matin-Asgari’s Axis of Empire

The Architecture of Hostility: Review Of Afshin Matin-Asgari’s Axis of Empire

BY Peerzada Mahboob Ul Haq

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Winter Will One Day Be Past: Review Of 'Umar Khalid And His World'

BY Tanika Sarkar

Rupa Publications : The novel has asked its questions without insisting on answers. What does it mean to forgive? When a woman renounces everything, is that defeat or is it something else entirely? The questions linger, as they should.

Book Review: 'The Renunciation,' Sita's Unspoken Story

BY Jinit Parmar

Speaking Tiger Books : That decision is justified as “practical” and “lucky” for a young widow, laying bare a society in which a woman’s grief, desire, and consent are all negotiable commodities.

Simrita Dhir’s The Song Of Distant Bulbuls Rewrites Punjab’s Partition Through Women’s Eyes

BY Disha Dahiya

Despite Biddy's lightness, the weight of the past spares no one.

Book Review: The Magnificent Ruins

This Too Is A Story | Mannu Bhandari | Translated by Poonam Saxena | Penguin Random House | Rs 599 | 280 pages

Book Review: Parallel Lives, Shared Legacy Of Hindi's Trailblazer Writers

BY Simar Puneet

Creeping Shadows Book Cover

Creeping Shadows: Aruna Chakravarti's Haunting Tales Of Psychological Dread

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