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The Commonwealth of Cricket documents an ardent fan’s lifelong engagement with the game

Jenny Bhatt knits together different voices, sweeping the reader into her characters’ world, in her debut collection of short stories

The former US President’s erudition and flair for stating complex realities are obvious in his third memoir, but so is his hawkishness about foreign policies that took hundreds of civilian lives

The memoir of India’s first woman radio newsreader is a ringside view of the country’s political and social revolution

Historian Vinay Lal shows why Covid-19 is not without precedent

A fringe party less than a decade ago, the BJP is now vying for power in West Bengal; its spectacular rise in the state is not without context or history

Whether the Tata group retains its old charm is debatable, but after 25 years with the company, Arun Maira shows what set it apart in the first place

Shobhaa De can endorse MDH spices; Chetan Bhagat may be the poster boy for Orient fans

American novelist Anne Tyler continues with her decades-long focus on ordinary folks in her latest work

Devaki Jain’s memoir documents her quest for personal and intellectual freedom in a newly independent country

Bhaswati Ghosh’s debut novel, set amidst the refugee crisis in Kolkata post the Partition, is a stark reminder of how the history of violence repeats itself

Susanna Clarke’s new book may not be like her debut fantasy novel, but the spell is as enchanting as ever

Healing the Ganga can start in your kitchen, says Bidisha Banerjee, whose new book explores the faith and the science that define the river, and what it will take to save it

Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s poetry is renowned for its surgical precision and restraint

Meghaa Gupta turns the lens on the country’s environmental history in a book for children and lay readers

Many a literary discovery is made from the comfort of train berths

A band of dacoits plunders and kills; a British officer looks to nab them. Siddhartha Sarma offers not just a tale of crime and punishment, but also glimpses of life in 19th-century India

Migration is a solution rather than a crisis, argues journalist Sonia Shah in her new book

A controversial member of spiritual guru Rajneesh’s commune, Ma Anand Sheela opens up about her past in a new book

In her new novel Lalwani delves into what makes us human, and humane

It is the kind of book we need right now — considerate, yet blunt and cautiously hopeful

Gangster-turned-marathoner Rahul Jadhav’s story is one of hope and second chances

Michiel Baas’s ‘Muscular India’ is a deeply humanistic portrait of the men who use their bodies to grow beyond their middle-class realities

Hari Kunzru’s new novel captures a nameless protagonist’s struggles to remain sane in a world plagued by invisible terror