Love by the Bosphorus

Saturday 24 October '09

The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk Translated by Maureen Freely Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 536  $28.95

Look Back in Languor

Sunday 26 July '09

Ali Sethi’s debut novel is a nostalgist’s map of Pakistan, but is too much of a baggy monster to be entirely satisfying

KITCHEN SINKS

Sunday 17 May '09

Monica Ali’s chef’s tale falls flat like a soufflé gone wrong n SAnjay sipahimalani

A Piece of Slow Music

Sunday 19 April '09

Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel languorously moves through the ragas of the Eighties Bombay.

People Like Them

Sunday 15 February '09

A dazzling debut

Grave crisis

Sunday 18 January '09

Death disappears and then returns to send out letters in violet stationery n sanjay sipahimalani

Mumbai Central

Sunday 7 December '08

Baumgartner winces in Colaba, Saleem Sinai sniffs in Breach Candy and Inspector Sartaj Singh waits outside a bomb bunker. Fiction has captured the metropolis’ incendiary dreams and nightmares n sanjay sipahimalani

Kill Joy

Sunday 16 November '08

With The Bikini Murders, Farrukh Dhondy abandons his genteel Poona Company and Bombay Duck persona to produce a novel dealing with a half-Vietnamese half-Indian serial killer...

Rail and Rant

Sunday 5 October '08

Has too much travel made Theroux tetchy?

Literary Supplement

Sunday 31 August '08

Amit Chaudhuri traces Indian modernity beyond mysticism and magical realism

Tripping Out on India

Sunday 10 August '08

Allen Ginsberg’s search for his personal brand of salvation

Urban Sprawl

Sunday 4 May '08

Hanif Kureishi’s new novel explores London, from the swinging ’70s to 7/7

Too Many Frames

Sunday 3 February '08

Saeed Mirza packs memories and political homilies in a rambling epistle to his mother