Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. Recently, I let an iPad into my life. I find the device faintly annoying, like some overpolished missionary trying to convert ...

The premise of "Tokyo Cancelled," the brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel by English-born expatriate Rana Dasgupta, harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer: A group of pilgrims, or, ...

A blind Bulgarian chemist sits alone in his flat, sweltering in the Sofia summer heat. As he approaches his 100th birthday, his still sighted mind's eye inevitably ranges over a 20th century that ...

Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta (Black Cat/Grove; 383 pages; $13.95 paperback): The premise of this brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel by English-born expatriate Rana Dasgupta ...

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi. By Rana Dasgupta. Canongate Books; 455 pages; £25. To be published in America by Penguin Press in May; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...

In a February 3 reading at the Harvard Book Store, author Rana Dasgupta described the challenges of recreating history in his second novel, “Solo,” which follows the life of a Bulgarian centenarian.

Yale University has announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The recipients, honoured for their literary achievement or promise, will each receive $175,000 to support their ...

It’s a question about a question: “Why is the argument about how to write about India such a contentious one?” asked Jonathan Shainin, news editor for the New Yorker, at a “Writing India: Two Authors ...