Siddhartha Deb

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Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

“To Paradise” shows little interest in the big questions it asks.

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

“The Last Great Road Bum” is a portrait of an American coming to political consciousness.

In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.

How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?

The decision to revoke Kashmir's special status is part of a ghastly—and popular—agenda for Delhi's hard-right Hindu government.

Narendra Modi has been reelected. In part, that's because Indian leftists, like American leftists, have been trying to imitate right-wingers rather than countering them.

What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise

How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.

The violence, insecurity, and rage of Narendra Modi.

Eka Kurniawan’s fiction reckons with Indonesia’s bloody inheritance

What tales of ancient Vedic aircraft tell us about India’s place in the modern world