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Amitava Kumar's 'A Time Outside This Time' goes beyond autofiction to explore the novel's potential to deliver deeper truths than the news cycle.

Amitava Kumar’s novel “A Time Outside This Time” is a crusade against misinformation amid global upheaval.

From surreal tales of a lesbian nurse with ‘bovine’ features who stalks her patient, a revealing story about inherited trauma, a potter consumed by the fever dream of a terracotta dog to a magical realist coming-of-age story set in Lucknow – we compile the best that Indian fiction had to offer in this wild year

Here's a checklist of book releases this fall in the United States

The State of the Pandemic We look at the state of the virus, through three charts. A vaccination site in Los Angeles that accepts walk-ins.Credit...Allison Zaucha for The New York Times May 12, 2021, 6:27 a.m. ET A few months ago, there was widespreadtalk about the possibility of a “fourth wave” of Covid-19 in the U.S. this spring. Many states were relaxing restrictions, and many Americans, tired of sitting at home, were beginning to expose themselves to greater Covid risk even though they...

Israeli-Palestinian violence flares.

The Oldest Productivity Trick Around https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/magazine/the-oldest-productivity-trick-around.html The Oldest Productivity Trick Around Too often I spent my days wanting to write and not writing. The simple power of the check mark helped me get back on track. Credit...Illustration by The New York Times By Amitava Kumar May 4, 2021Updated 6:47 a.m. ET About 10 years ago, I began teaching a yearlong class in creative writing to college seniors. By the end of the course, ea...

The comedian had been arrested in Indore before he could get on stage for a stand-up act