Damon Galgut’s biographical novel prises from EM Forster’s writings and relationships a portrait of a writer whose work was defined by his fraught sexuality

At the inaugural Jodhpur Flamenco & Gypsy Festival

Kamila Shamsie’s new novel animates history with textures of fruit, blood and stone

Amy Chua’s controversial new book suggests ‘outsiders’ can and do succeed in unequal America—but at what cost?

Reading into the Jaipur Literature Festival

Negotiating the minefield

In his new book, Husain Haqqani attempts to bridge the gap of understanding between the US and Pakistan

Would Gandhi still be interesting if he’d never made it to India in 1914? Ramachandra Guha answers: ‘absolutely.’

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel The Lowland is oddly compelling; tiring, yet insisting on meaning

Lavanya Sankaran’s aptly named first novel The Hope Factory is the latest in formulaic fiction from the Subcontinent

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…