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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Novel

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. 

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.