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The straight and narrow vision of ‘Crook Manifesto’

The pirates of Madagascar

POEM: Oldies

Cormac McCarthy: A great American novelist

FICTION: A Fair Share

Like father, unlike son: Martin Amis’s place in literature

Hazaar Fucked: The comforts of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August

Love and caste collide in Perumal Murugan’s 'Pyre'

Spare us the drivel, please

Blurry in Berlin: Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘Sojourn’

Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties

FICTION: Vermilion

Hilary Mantel gave richness to historical fiction

Race and unease in Mohsin Hamid’s ‘The Last White Man’

Full Toss — On Loving Baseball in a Cricket Crazy Nation

At the Blums’—A review of 'The Netanyahus' by Joshua Cohen

Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’: A fairy tale for realists

To be human for the corporation: Olga Ravn’s ‘The Employees’

Pulp fiction: Sheba’s place in Bengali canon

Love in the time of war

The vanilla suit: Tom Wolfe in full