BOOKS
Book review | Ann Patchett’s ‘Tom Lake’ is as warm as the winter sun
Patchett’s long-standing style swings between the poles of inimitability and intimacy. She makes sure that her readers turn each page with the feeling of having earned something.
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Book review | Tom Hanks’ debut novel is middling at best
In ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece’, Hanks gives even minor characters grand introductions and wraps the proceedings with footnotes.
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Book review | CN Annadurai’s ‘Help Me with This Tricky Case’ is a simple collection of simple stories
If your only motive is to understand the celebrated politician through his words, then you won’t have any complaints.
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International Booker 2023 winner ‘Time Shelter’ is all about nostalgia
In Time Shelter, a man, named Gaustine, creates a “clinic for the past” so that people who are suffering from Alzheimer's would be able to find comfort in the things that they grew up with.
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Book review | ‘The Chippendales Murders’ or how not to get away with murder
K Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca's 'The Chippendales Murders' is several leagues ahead of its screen adaptation by Robert Siegel and offers an unintended message on the ills of greed.
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International Booker Prize 2023: 6 shortlisted books, and reasons why literary awards matter
The winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize for translated works will be announced in London on May 23. And the prize money (£50,000) will be shared equally between the writer and the translator.
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Book review | Bangladeshi novelist Shahidul Zahir's ‘I See the Face’ is endlessly riveting
Even though there are killings and the Bangladesh Liberation War at the heart of I See the Face, it’s the psychological framework of men that Bangladeshi novelist Shahidul Zahir seems to be most interested in
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Book review | Bora Chung’s ‘Cursed Bunny’ is a daring collection of terrifying tales
In her 2022 International Booker Prize-shortlisted collection of short stories, Bora Chung doesn’t care for closures that veer towards relief. She seems to derive comfort by painting small, unsettling interiors.
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'Farzi' review | Shahid Kapoor and Vijay Sethupathi are fantastic in this crime drama
There are several pauses and silences that make 'Farzi' watchable. However, they belong to the department of acting and not writing.
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Book review: 'We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies' puts exile under a microscope
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel 'We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies', about a family that's displaced following China’s invasion of Tibet, was shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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20 years of N.T. Rama Rao Jr. in Telugu cinema
Tarak, like his contemporaries Allu Arjun and Ram Charan, has grown tremendously as an actor since his debut as a child actor in 1996.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Book review: Elizabeth Strout's ‘Lucy by the Sea’ is a pandemic novel for our times
There are many languorous passages that pop up at random. As much as they are fillers, they can also be counted as brief pauses that we often take, like naps.
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Book review: Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation proves that he’s a big movie geek
Cinema Speculation is a fun throwback to the era when going to the theatres was a big deal.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
Book Review | Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’ is a profoundly sad memoir
Chandler is kind of a cartoonish character who has his foot in the mouth and his heart in the right place. With his autobiography, Perry may not be seen as the smart guy with the smart one-liners any more.
LIFESTYLE-TRENDS
The seven moons of Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka
The 2022 Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka’s books are love letters to Sri Lanka despite being drenched in blood.
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'GodFather' review | Salman Khan's hat-tip to Chiranjeevi stands out in this spoon-fed version of ‘Lucifer’
'GodFather' does what the other Chiranjeevi starrer, 'Acharya', couldn’t do – hold your attention.
