Fiction

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

The image of something dark, something underground. If that sounds familiar to you, it means you're well-acquainted with Haruki...

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami is innocent as much as poetic. It’s about falling for and rescuing yourself from...

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri renders a space in which readers can meditate on the realness of “identity.” And we can also admit to...

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft

One begins writing a story when afflicted by a desire to contribute to something. To understand the way we are born, deemed to live, and...

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

“When you looked through an angel’s eyes you saw essences instead of surfaces, you saw the decay of the soul blistering and bubbling on...

The Box Man by Kobo Abe

It all started with wanting to become, or rather be, a box man. The book introduces a work of fiction that sets the boundary that...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Love, like the innocence of childhood, evolves as one does in a society held tightly by the strings of convention and patriarchy. Though...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

We extract the good and the bad in life. Accept it. And still, remain confined to what feels familiar and ours. Books The Bell Jar must...

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Variety is a part and parcel of all companionship. And because there are all kinds of people making different choices, there is always a...

Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings by Ismat Chughtai

Imagine, just for a moment, the rise and fall of your heartbeat. Feel tiny bubbles of thoughts making their way through the changing...