Book review: Vigil
George Saunders’ Vigil is a bold, formally inventive novel that dazzles with style, though its emotional depth and originality fall short.
Book review: People With No Charisma
A bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.
Book review: Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp, the first Kannada-language winner of the International Booker Prize, is a powerful collection of stories by Banu Mushtaq, exploring women’s lives under patriarchy…