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Salman Rushdie on Substack is either killing the novel or taking it back to its birth

It is not surprising that authors such as Patti Smith and Scott Snyder and a host of comic book authors from Marvel and DC have also entered Substack.

Betrayal, illusion, late middle age — John Le Carré novels were more than just spy thrillers

What makes Le Carré so great is his premise that our inner lives are perhaps best understood as a study in self-deception and self-revelation.

This tale of love, marriage, divorce is first state-sanctioned North Korean novel in English

'Friend' by Paek Nam-nyong was first published in 1988 becoming an instant bestseller and is a significant part of the North Korean literary canon.

Spy thrillers from the cold war need to make a comeback

Western spy fiction needs state actors with strong non-Western or, better, anti-Western values to become exciting again.

Kerala author Hareesh withdraws novel: Does attack stifle free expression or are writers being culturally insensitive?

Facing abuse from right wingers on social media, Hareesh said that he “was too weak” to take on the powerful. Hareesh’s novel, Mathrubhumi, got mired in controversy over its sexually explicit portrayal of Indian women. Experts weigh in.

The most hyped thriller this summer traces a world of heady excess and rotting corruption

Cristina Alger's new financial thriller tracks a group of globe-trotting financial criminals and the women who take them to task.

Gabriel Tallent’s ‘My Absolute Darling’ is a deliciously dark and heartrending novel

Tallent’s debut novel about a child growing up in isolation and then finding herself keeps the reader within its pages days after putting it down. 

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Forget Kejriwal. Think of what our institutions are doing to enable authoritarianism

This decision is so damaging to the government that efforts will be made to ensure that it does not stand. The prosecution has said that it will file an appeal in the high court.

Crypto tumbles after US, Israel launch attacks on Iran

Bitcoin dropped as much as 3.8% to $63,038, while Ether, the second-largest token, slid 4.5% to $1,835. Roughly $128 billion in market value was erased across digital assets.

India has ordered more Polish drones, Indian firm keen to set up munitions factory in Poland—Warsaw’s envoy

New Delhi: India is right to pursue and strike terrorists where they are, as during Op Sindoor, Poland’s Ambassador to India Dr Piotr Antoni...

Pakistan is fighting a two-front war. I saw it coming 15 yrs ago

The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.