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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude,

Macondo for beginners: How to enjoy Marquez’s magic and his realism

October 01, 2026 2:25 pm

Watched One Hundred Years of Solitude on Netflix? If you’d like to know more about Marquez or are wondering what the fuss around him is for, here’s a primer.

Jeena isi ka naam hai: Why Shailendra is the self-help poet you need

September 10, 2026 5:42 pm

For all that he ruled Bollywood, the lyricist Shailendra had a hard life. Yet, in song after song, he reaffirms, tu zinda hai tou zindagi ki jeet par yakeen kar. If you are alive, believe in the invincibility of life.

Did Homer's heroes need therapy? What Nolan and Yann Martel get wrong about epics

August 02, 2026 5:38 pm

If you have watched The Odyssey, Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody should be your next read. Here’s why.

Women’s Prize, Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

Are you greater than the sum of all your text messages? This year’s Women’s Prize winner can tell you

June 30, 2026 3:54 pm

If you enjoy wise, reflective novels about everyday life, or if you’ve hit a reading block, The Correspondent is the book for you. Here’s why

India has more English academies than Pakistan, but rebels like Mohammed Hanif are in short supply

May 19, 2026 1:58 pm

Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy is irreverent, unafraid and very funny. It is the kind of English book that hasn’t come out of India in a while now.

This is Where the serpent lives Daniyal Mueenuddin

If Charles Dickens wrote Downton Abbey: This new Pakistani novel has charm, beauty, and unrelenting cruelty

April 05, 2026 10:03 pm

Daniyal Mueenuddin's new novel, This is Where The Serpent Lives, combines Dickensian characters with Pakistani destinies, to great effect.

Goth Barbie, dull dreamboat: Why Wuthering Heights' lovers are angry with Emerald Fennell's ragebait

May 27, 2026 7:14 pm

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell has scrubbed out everything that was uncomfortable or transgressive or brave or true in the book, and replaced it with pretty clothes and hot sex, because outrage sells, amirite?

David Szalay's Flesh is crisp, moving, experimental — and not a manosphere manifesto

November 23, 2025 2:47 pm

In the rush to tie every Booker winner to a cultural zeitgeist, David Szalay's Flesh has been anointed the latest ‘masculinity in crisis’ novel. It is much more than that, says this review.

Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter: A quiet, captivating book for the phone-frazzled mind

November 12, 2025 3:20 pm

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter, Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: This column's pick is for those who would like to slow down and concentrate, but are overwhelmed by the onslaught of 'content' all around. Andrew Miller makes you pay attention to fully savour his The Land in Winter.

Re-reading The Kite Runner: Empathy and redemption come all too easy as a winning formula

November 13, 2025 8:15 pm

On a closer reading, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner reveals how its moral simplicity and ready redemption make it both heart-warming and problematic.