Fang Fang’s Soft Burial, which opens with a woman waking in a hospital with no memory, explores ‘violence and loss with a quietness that makes both hit harder.’

Nancy Lemann’s first novel in more than two decades, The Oyster Diaries is a discourse on the differences between ‘youth and age’ and ‘death… and disillusionment.’

Boong, a Manipuri-language film, is a ‘political exploration gift-wrapped in a coming-of-age drama.’

Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky is a ‘rare literary novel in which basketball drives the plot.’

Mayukh Sen’s Love, Queenie is a biography of Merle Oberon, the first South Asian to be nominated for an Academy Award, who sought to pass as white.