Call It Babel

Sunday 1 April '07

28 leading global writers introduce lesser known ones.

Last Reads

Sunday 18 March '07

Alice Munro says this may be her last book. It reminds us how great the loss could be.

In Hotel Calcutta

Sunday 4 March '07

Chowringhee, in English translation after 45 years, profiles the city’s duality

Child of War

Sunday 4 February '07

Margaret Drabble finally returns to form

Caste Ceiling

Sunday 14 January '07

A memoir of a remarkable bid for equality and dignity that resonates in today’s policy debates

And the Other Half

Sunday 31 December '06

This year the novel continued to amaze by collecting ever newer idioms

How to Plot in Maximum City

Sunday 10 December '06

From Arun Kolatkar to the recent three big Bombay books, the city’s fiction and its prose are part of its very being

Daniel’s Six

Sunday 19 November '06

A wrenching story of a man’s quest for relatives killed by the Nazis

The Novel’s Worthy Inheritor

Sunday 15 October '06

Bringing together many contemporary themes, Kiran Desai’s Booker-winning novel is a story for the times we live in

So Fake, So True

Sunday 13 August '06

Peter Carey is brilliant on how art is produced and misrepresented

Cliches at 22

Sunday 30 July '06

John Updike tries to get into the mind of a terrorist, and fails

Monkey’s Right

Sunday 9 July '06

A modern retelling of the Panchatantra tackles deceit and betrayal

More On Jo

Sunday 25 June '06

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that complements Little Women

Brightness Dims

Sunday 28 May '06

Jay McInerney’s novel about NYC’s beautiful folks is split by 9/11

Quest in the Sky

Sunday 14 May '06

A South Asian traces the triumph of reason in 18th-century Lisbon

1944: A Love Story

Sunday 30 April '06

Sarah Waters has delivered an extraordinary war novel