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Choosing serenity over cynicism

This book is a long way off from Chatterjee’s first novel, English, August, the work that heralded his arrival on the Indian literary firmament as a once-in-a-generation talent.

06 April 2024, 22:43 IST

Choosing serenity over cynicism

Choosing serenity over cynicism

Choosing serenity over cynicism

06 April 2024, 22:43 IST

Power games in a city of djinns

Written originally in French and translated into English by Russell Harris, Samarkand brings alive a long-forgotten world.

23 March 2024, 23:46 IST

Power games in a city of djinns

Power games in a city of djinns

Power games in a city of djinns

23 March 2024, 23:46 IST

Seething with quiet rage

If the Hotel du Lac was really not as good as the Booker judges made it out to be 40 years ago and if Brookner wasn’t such an accomplished stylist in her own right as much as Ballard was in his, it would’ve disappeared, hidden from view on dusty library shelves

03 March 2024, 00:20 IST

Seething with quiet rage

Seething with quiet rage

Seething with quiet rage

03 March 2024, 00:20 IST

Delving into the normality of evil

That One Book is a fortnightly column that does exactly what it says — it takes up one great classic and tells you why it is (still) great.

17 February 2024, 22:27 IST

Delving into the normality of evil

Delving into the normality of evil

Delving into the normality of evil

17 February 2024, 22:27 IST

Seeking mirth in the mundane

Jerome’s novel, Three Men in a Boat, has the added pleasure of a canine traveller, Montmorency, who makes his presence felt early on in this tale.

27 January 2024, 23:42 IST

Seeking mirth in the mundane

Seeking mirth in the mundane

Seeking mirth in the mundane

27 January 2024, 23:42 IST

Distorted realities

At several points, while reading the novel, I couldn’t help but think this would have worked better as a series of oral histories compiled and edited for another, more interactive medium than just a printed book.

13 January 2024, 23:06 IST

Distorted realities

Distorted realities

Distorted realities

13 January 2024, 23:06 IST

Not so comforting after all!

Critics tend to be sniffy because the writers who wrote these stories and the readers who read them have historically tended to be mostly female and the lead character investigating the mystery is too eccentric or too old to have any sex appeal.

06 January 2024, 19:55 IST

Not so comforting after all!

Not so comforting after all!

Not so comforting after all!

06 January 2024, 19:55 IST

A living connection to a vanished past

That One Book is a fortnightly column that does exactly what it says — it takes up one great classic and tells you why it is (still) great.

23 December 2023, 22:22 IST

A living connection to a vanished past

A living connection to a vanished past

A living connection to a vanished past

23 December 2023, 22:22 IST

'In Patagonia, the drinker drinks'

While you read In Patagonia and are grateful that the piece of skin in Chatwin’s grandmother’s dining room inspired him to write a classic, you do wonder if maybe it wasn’t a bit too good at selling a place that might have benefited from staying remote and shrouded in mystery.

09 December 2023, 23:54 IST

'In Patagonia, the drinker drinks'

'In Patagonia, the drinker drinks'

'In Patagonia, the drinker drinks'

09 December 2023, 23:54 IST

Peeling the genteel veneer

All through the novel, which draws to the violent end promised at its start, the spectre of the First World War looms

18 November 2023, 23:19 IST

Peeling the genteel veneer

Peeling the genteel veneer

Peeling the genteel veneer

18 November 2023, 23:19 IST