India's most celebrated novelists almost all live abroad. That has shaped what Indian fiction looks like to the world., Books, Times Now

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A Spanish publisher has released a new edition of Gilbert and Gubar’s renowned 1979 book, which analyzed the work of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontë sisters and Emily Dickinson from a new angle

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Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.

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Mieko Kawakami, Asako Yuzuki, and other novelists offer fewer cats and cafés, more cultural critique.

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