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                                                            Why ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ deserved to be snubbed at the OscarsThe 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 yearThree 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-changersWhile 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 chaosAs 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 worldBoth 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 2016A 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 foetusNutshell 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 fallThey'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 bookYaa Gyasi summons her instinctive abilities as a writer to give us a story that is compelling,startling, and moving. 
 
    











