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My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti

Kiran Desai’s long-awaited, ‘oceanic’ second novel

A reactionary radical’s case against progress

The biggest story in publishing in the week that I am writing this – by far – is the furore over the authenticity or lack of it of The Salt Path. There are reports of legal cases being prepared, so I

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o