'Best of Friends', the latest novel from Women’s Prize-winner Kamila Shamsie, explores complexities of power and ethics within an enduring female friendship.
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Barry Hines’s ‘The Gamekeeper’ Is a Novel About How Capitalism Steals Nature From Us
Barry Hines is best known as author of 'Kestrel for a Knave', adapted for film by Ken Loach. His newly rereleased novel, 'The Gamekeeper', offers a searing portrait of …
‘Hitler’s Girl’ Explores British Ties With the Nazis
A new book discusses how close Britain's aristocracy was to the Nazi regime and what the situation in those times tells us about the dangers to democracy today.
Where Exactly Is Ling Ma Trying to Take Us in Bliss Montage?
Ling Ma’s new short story collection, Bliss Montage, leads us down strange, stimulating paths — and then leaves us before we can fully gather our bearings.
Book Review: The Brief, Gorgeous and Honest World of Ocean Vuong
'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous' shows readers that even in the loss, there’s redemption, and a beauty of sorts only if one knows where to find it.
Review: A Bengali Novella on the Complexities of Migration
Bitan Chakraborty’s novella 'Redundant', translated by Malati Mukherjee, seeks to find answers through the eyes of migrant workers.
Book Review: Gloves and Gumboots Don’t Help, Manual Scavenging Has to Go
Years after publication, Bhasha Singh's 'Unseen' remains the go-to account for a look into how pervasive and cruel this casteist practice is in India.
Ideal Delhi Girl: Excerpts from ‘Adulting’
"Now that I’d just started working, I had had no time to ‘listen to my body’."