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Review: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Published on Oct 2, 2025 08:55 IST
Jeju Island in South Korea. “Midway through, Serk’s sabbatical takes him to Japan. His parents were from Jeju Island and learning, as a child, that the place wasn’t Japanese but Korean was “so profoundly disorienting that the greater discovery, that he himself was Korean, was for the moment secondary.” (Shutterstock)

Review: A New World Romance by Susham Bedi

Bridging the old world and the new: An Indian couple in USA. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Oct 1, 2025 17:02 IST

Book picks; new reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a look into the life a legendary Indian classical musician, and a novel set across Asia at the peak of the Delta wave (Akash Shrivastav)
Published on Sep 27, 2025 23:24 IST

Poetry pick: Grief by Meera Ganapathi

107pp, Rs599; HarperCollins
Published on Sep 27, 2025 23:22 IST

Review: The Eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad

Death and devastation in Gaza in a picture dated September 16, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
Updated on Sep 24, 2025 13:50 IST

Review: Selected Poems by Kiriti Sengupta

“The Bengali in Sengupta erupts again in a light-hearted poem entitled Masala Muri , in which he writes in a nostalgic vein of this snack...” (Shutterstock)
Updated on Sep 22, 2025 13:49 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an account of democracy in South Asia, a prison memoir by a Dalit intellectual, and a classic volume on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. (Akash Shrivastava)
Published on Sep 19, 2025 23:24 IST

Review: Good Girl by Aria Aber

A techno club in Berlin (Shutterstock)
Published on Sep 18, 2025 07:50 IST