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  Around the world to eat (01 November 12:00)
A palatable and well-informed romp through global cuisine.
  A storm of a secret in a teacup (01 November 12:00)
Inane characters, a tedious plot and pretensions to upward mobility make for a forgettable read.
  The road to recovery (01 November 12:00)
A moving account of a mourning so courageous and a healing so complete, as few people manage.
  New books in Old series (01 November 12:00)
A look at two novels — The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Swedish author Stieg Larsson and And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer — that bring the spotlight back onto two very differen...
  An author in search of himself (01 November 12:00)
Summertime is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of literature…
  The nuns tale (01 November 12:00)
Dalrymple’s austere and exciting book on nine astonishing religious lives opens with a moving story that should kindle interest in Jainism.
  Bottoms up (01 November 12:00)
Happy Hours: The Penguin Book of Cocktails, Bhaichand Patel, Penguin, Rs. 499. Barrister Bhaichand Patel draws on his hours behind the bar as a bartender to put together this heady arra...
  Of the inconstant heart (01 November 12:00)
The Good Soldier is a novel about brittle social graces that mask savage hatreds.
  Anecdotes of loss and desire (01 November 12:00)
Alain de Botton, Heathrow airport’s first writer-in-residence, on what it was like to sit in Terminal 5 and watch life unfold in one of the nerve centres of the modern world, the airport...
  Recognising each other (01 November 12:00)
Sharing the same cultural and historical complex ought to make Indian writers in English more receptive to each others’ work. Its absence is a hurdle to developing a sustained writing trad...
  Remembering Faiz (01 November 12:00)
For the 25th anniversary of the death of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, invoking his persona and poetry.
  Enduring monuments (01 November 12:00)
The last week of October always revives the memory of two immortal poets: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
  For verse or for worse (04 October 12:00)
Vijay Nambisan’s translations of two 16th century Bhakti classics do not work given his limited access to the languages of the originals.
  Brilliant in parts (04 October 12:00)
The Quickening Maze, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is beautifully written but is limited by a serious absence of narrative unity.
  A flair for the unusual (04 October 12:00)
From a sluggish first half, Solo takes flight to a surreal world.
  Travellers tales (04 October 12:00)
Of encounters in far-flung places.
  More management tales (04 October 12:00)
Another MBA tells his particular story.
  Unknown Cromwell (04 October 12:00)
Wolf Hall, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2009, is a unique vision of English history.
  New releases (04 October 12:00)
  Intimacy of killing (04 October 12:00)
Intimacy of killing” might sound incongruous, but that is what “killology” founder Lt.Col. Dave Grossman seeks to detail in his 1995 Pulitzer shortlisted book On Killing. It has since ...
  All is not revealed (04 October 12:00)
Waiting for the sequel to the Da Vinci Code? Well, The Lost Symbol is definitely not the one.
  A critical failure (04 October 12:00)
Winning literary prizes abroad is a habit with Indian writers; one we need to view with scepticism rather than naively accept as a sign of superior standards.
  Being bookish in Brazil (04 October 12:00)
Random notes on a book industry junket with a mind that wanders to the rainforests.
  Seeking the self (04 October 12:00)
Poetry, says Kanimozhi, whose latest book was released recently, is about inner equilibriums. Excerpts from a conversation...
  Behind brand Booker (04 October 12:00)
Unpredictable, arbitrary, unreliable…The Man Booker Prize may be all that and more. Yet, for 40 years, it has unfailingly picked winners that have staying power. Who will win it this Octob...
  Booker shortlist 2009 (04 October 12:00)
Short takes on this year’s nominations by novelist
  The inaccessible laid bare (06 September 12:00)
Poems, stories and biographies rich in imagery and lyrics reveal trends in regional literature.
  Midnight musings (06 September 12:00)
There are times when words cannot quite capture the eloquence of silence that underlies companionship.
  Brave passage (06 September 12:00)
There’s more to Pakistan than meets the mind of the not-too-well-informed reader.
  Wages of freedom (06 September 12:00)
A literary and social milestone that needs a place in the thinking connoisseur’s library.
  Misplaced enthusiasm (06 September 12:00)
A book that works more as an ebullient attack on New Literary Criticism, and not as a novel.
  Power of the story (06 September 12:00)
Unconventional in format and subject, The Storyteller’s Tale is a celebration of tales.
  Elusive selves (06 September 12:00)
A stereotypical tale of Westerners ‘finding’ themselves in India.
  Religion of the heart (06 September 12:00)
Sufism, often considered exotic and esoteric, belongs to ordinary people of faith.
  A fine press for Chennai (06 September 12:00)
In Tara Books, a book is not just another book; it is a work of art.
  Into a private world (06 September 12:00)
In the times of Love and Longing: Amrita and Imroz, translated by Arvinder, edited by Uma Trilok, Full Circle, Rs. 295. In the days of instant messaging and breathless communication over so...
  Chiaroscuro of insights (06 September 12:00)
Luminous stories that question the validity of status quo.
  Mirror mantra (06 September 12:00)
The canonisation of writers like Rushdie and Naipaul in the West enables it to think of itself as radical without really being inconvenienced. The real Other remains outside its gaze…
  Exile as a choice (06 September 12:00)
Sentimentality and nostalgia have ruined the rich possibilities afforded by the ‘migrant’ novel, feels Neel Mukherjee, recipient of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for his novel P...
  Celebration time at Seminar (06 September 12:00)
Steering clear of personal attacks, Seminar has provided a platform for non-partisan polemics. A conversation with the journal’s publisher and editors on the occasion of its completion of ...
  Metaphysical riddles (02 August 12:00)
This collection of Neela Padmanabhans writing turns out be both frustrating and uneven
  Words of wisdom (02 August 12:00)
Optimistic and reassuring Ashok Sawhnys poems are an enjoyable read
  A labouring world (02 August 12:00)
The book is both an elegy and epitaph for industrial civilisation
  Re-imagining Pakistan (02 August 12:00)
Various readings of Pakistan as a country in the light of its portrayal in Rushdies novels
  On the threshold between prose and poetry (02 August 12:00)
What Hermann Broch so poetically explores in The Death of Virgil is art its promise of knowledge and its inevitable failure
  Bharat still eclipsed (02 August 12:00)
  Bapu Kids pack (02 August 12:00)
  Fizz goes flat (02 August 12:00)
  Go East young man (02 August 12:00)
In The Razors Edge Maugham foresaw that the West would one day come seeking the East
  Comic book capers (02 August 12:00)
Amar Chitra Katha comics form a part of professor Karline McLains exploration of visual culture in modern India
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