An absurdly comic and uncannily contemporary novel from Kerala

Short stories where the believable and unbelievable co-exist

In the sleeper hit indie film Aamis, members of a club catch and cook their own fresh meat. The director Bhaskar Hazarika tells Palash Krishna Mehrotra how he got the elements of love and horror just right

Unni R, a master of the short story form, remains committed to an approximate realism

Love is a dish best served cold

The Ziro Festival in Arunachal Pradesh where mainland meets mainland

A seductive narrative of sex and religion

In Updike’s final collection of stories, published posthumously, death is a constant presence and it seems to have played an active role in his imagination

In his first collection of short stories, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that this form is capable of handling the biggest of themes

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…