Weekly reading: 'Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors' review, David Davidar interview, diaspora Indian writers, and more

  • 22 Aug, 2022
Fifteen recent books by writers of Indian origin published abroad

‘Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors’: This novel about a young couple’s sex scandal is an assured debut

With whip-smart humour and pointed observations, Jayan explores the frustrating consequences of the generation gap between parents and children.

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Publisher David Davidar on why young writers make him hopeful about Indian fiction in English

Davidar is the editor and publisher of a new anthology of stories by writers under 40.

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From the diaspora: Fifteen recent books by writers of Indian origin published abroad

Selections across fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and cookbooks.

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‘The Last White Man’: Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel is a redemptive fable about race and identity

The novel is a provocative peek into a post racial world where whiteness is a distant memory.

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Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl: A marriage that defied the Third Reich

An excerpt from ‘Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose’s Life, Politics & Struggle,’ by Krishna Bose. Edited and translated by Sumantra Bose.

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The US government wants to stop the merger of two mega publishers. Will authors benefit?

The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

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India at 75: What is the place of women’s writings in the historical imagination of the nation?

The fifth in an exclusive series of essays to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, by winners of the New India Foundation Fellowship for writers.

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‘Banaras Talkies’ in translation is an adroit recreation of a wickedly funny campus novel in Hindi

Himadri Agarwal’s translation of Satya Vyas’s 2015 Hindi novel negotiates the gaps between Hindi and English imaginatively.

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‘Some say my translations read like originals, and originals, like translations’: Aruna Chakravarti

An interview with translator turned critically-acclaimed author, Aruna Chakravarti.

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In ‘After Sappho,’ iconic women in history claim the rights to their lives and queer identities

An excerpt from ‘After Sappho,’ by Selby Wynn Schwartz.

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