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Why ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ deserved to be snubbed at the Oscars
The movie terribly portrays race, as we are expected to forget that Dixon has a history of torturing African-Americans
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14 books that prove 2017 has been an exceptional literary year
Three of Pakistan’s most venerated writers published novels this year: Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam.
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‘Exit West’ and ‘The Golden Legend’ could be Pakistan’s literary game-changers
While Hamid’s novel deals with the refugee crises, Aslam reminds us of the copious injustices present in our...
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‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’: A beautiful kind of chaos
As a novelist, Roy’s gift is for delineating the arithmetic of love and loss, not the ‘algebra of infinite injustice’
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‘A Horse Walks into a Bar’ and ‘Judas’: Two riveting masterpieces from Israel to the world
Both these novels are extremely different and are undeniably the works of two masters at the top of their game.
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Five non-fiction books of 2016 you should definitely read!
The Terror Years is an extensively researched and reported account about al-Qaeda and its metamorphosis into ISIS.
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These 10 novels prove that the literati stepped up their game in 2016
A year that saw Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was sure to go down as an unusual literary year.
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Nutshell: In the mind of an unborn foetus
Nutshell is an intelligent and compelling novel that uses Hamlet’s plot as a backdrop and yet is utterly original.
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Ten modern classics you should read this fall
They'll change the way you think and feel, and these are the books that we will be rereading in many more years.
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Homegoing: An uncompromising and astonishing book
Yaa Gyasi summons her instinctive abilities as a writer to give us a story that is compelling,startling, and moving.