Sometime in the recent past, I overheard someone remark, "I'll read anything by Tania James." And at the time - shame on me - I'd not heard that name before. Somehow I'd missed James' debut novel, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the May 5 edition of Sunday Life.See all 13 stories. The past burst into my life last week in the shape of a ...

Although most of the characters in these nine immaculately crafted short stories share a common native land—Kerala in southern India—their range of emotions is brilliantly diverse. Yet they all feel ...