Published by Jonathan Cape London / Random House, 2025, 254 pages This is Salman Rushdie’s latest book, a collection of three longish stories bookended by two short ones. Given the attack on him that almost killed him and the fact that he is now 78, it is not surprising that many of the stories deal …
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Heart Lamp—Selected Stories: Banu Mushtaq
Translated from Kannada by Deepa BhasthiPublished by Penguin India / And Other Stories, 2025, 216 pages. Original versions of stories first published in 2013 and 2023. A woman whose husband leaves her for another woman is saved by her children; a man who becomes obsessed with a pair of high-heeled shoes forces his wife to …
The Last Day: Jaroslavas Melnikas
Translated from Lithuanian by Marija MarcinkutePublished by Noir Press, 2018, 175 pages. Original version published in 2018. The Last Day is a book of absurdist short stories by a Lithuanian writer. The protagonists, mainly men (with one exception), are victims of circumstance, caught up in strange situations that they cannot control. In the title story, …
Atwood, again and again
Review by Usha Raman Publishing details: The Handmaid's Tale, published by Everyman / Virago, 1985, 392 pages. The Robber Bride, published by DoubleDay / Virago, 1993, 576 pages. Wilderness Tips, published by Nan A. Talese / Virago, 288 pages. Moral Disorder, published by Bloomsbury Publishing / Virago, 2006, 272 pages. I encountered Margaret Atwood first …
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