#ELLEReview : Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

An apartment viewing shouldn’t really turn into a hostage situation, but for the people who showed up for the viewing on that day, didn’t really expect a failed bank robber to burst in, sob loudly and exclaim, “I’m having quite a complicated day here!” and hold them hostage. And, suddenly, everyone is anxious. There is… Continue reading #ELLEReview : Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

After K-Dramas, Meet Your Next Big Obsession: Korean Novels

Now that we love K-Drama, K-Beauty, and K-Pop, let ELLE India introduce you to Korean novels. These novels are defined by their striking ability to defy and mix genre and explore unspoken social themes, by weaving a narrative that captures the reader by speaking to their experiences. This list has at least one book for everyone!… Continue reading After K-Dramas, Meet Your Next Big Obsession: Korean Novels

#ELLERecommends: 4 Books That Celebrate The Magic Of Mythology Retold

There is something unequivocally alluring about a book that follows the anachronistic literary narrative, which places people associated with a particular time in history in the wrong time period. These tales are old as time, and you are curious to know how the characters would react, think, or even just… live. Author Trisha Das thought… Continue reading #ELLERecommends: 4 Books That Celebrate The Magic Of Mythology Retold

8 Of The Best New Queer YA Books

Books that celebrate and honour the journey of LGBTQIA+ individuals are important because nothing is more profound and comforting to know that you are not alone, especially for queer and trans individuals. We’ve rounded up eight of the latest Queer YA books available right now — from romance, sci-fi, historical fiction, mystery, and all that.… Continue reading 8 Of The Best New Queer YA Books

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Poirot is back

Agatha Christie nerd Sophie Hannah brings back legendary detective Hercule Poirot – but not from the dead.  ELLE: When were you first introduced to Agatha Christie?Sophie Hannah: I first read Agatha Christie at 12, when my father bought The Body In The Library for me at a second-hand book fair. I adored it. By the time… Continue reading Poirot is back

Lena Dunham kind of girl

Where did Lena Dunham source material for her kooky dramedy Girls? Maybe from the two existential crises she endured as a teenager, the times she couldn’t tolerate her awesome friends or from her reckless experiments with veganism. By letting the world in on her many encounters with shame in Not That Kind Of Girl, Dunham attempts to… Continue reading Lena Dunham kind of girl

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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Rekha

In Rekha: The Untold Story, his novelistic new biography of the enigmatic star, Yasser Usman pieces together a riveting portrait of a woman who has always strayed from convention in life, love and her career, and often paid a high price for it. Rekha’s personal life could sometimes resemble the plot of her more sensational potboilers.… Continue reading Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Rekha

Book of the week: What Is Remembered by Suketu Mehta

CliffsNotes: An Indian man lands at JFK and by the time he’s cleared customs, he’s forgotten his mother’s name. As his years in the new country go by, more information about his provenance – who is his family? What happened to them? Are they dead or alive? – slides off him, mostly unnoticed. Until the… Continue reading Book of the week: What Is Remembered by Suketu Mehta

Book of the week: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

CliffsNotes: Set in 1960s California, Commonwealth is a twisted, tumultuous family tree of parents, children, stepchildren, siblings, and stepsiblings. Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating leave their spouses for each other. Their new collective causes much anger, rebellion and resentment – and serious accidents. Years later, in her twenties, Beverly’s daughter Franny recounts their stories to novelist Leon… Continue reading Book of the week: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Book of the week: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

CliffsNotes: “After all this time”, there’s a story from the Harry Potter universe. That’s not counting the many Pottermore missives and Twitter posts from JK Rowling over the last nine years. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child: Parts One And Two is written by JK Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne. The fat book is… Continue reading Book of the week: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

Book of the Week: Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

CliffsNotes: Sofia Khan, a British Muslim publicist has just broken up with her possible-marriage-partner-to-be (“Shouldn’t there be a word for someone between a friend and a potential husband?”) because he refuses to move out of his hole-in-the-wall family home; and everyone from her parents to her boss, Brammers, seems be crazy about it.  Sofia was ready to… Continue reading Book of the Week: Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

Book of the week: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

CliffsNotes: Bestselling and wickedly funny American author Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) tackles mental illness with her sophomore book, and a collection of essays. She describes herself as “a high-functioning depressive with anxiety disorder and mild-self harm issues,” even if the title of the book made you think otherwise. Lawson goes from laugh-out-loud funny to startlingly… Continue reading Book of the week: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

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Siddhartha Mukherjee tackles mental illness with The Gene

The morning I met Siddhartha Mukherjee, he had run most of the way from his room at the magnificent St Pancras Renaissance Hotel—as soon as he realised that his cab would not get the better of London’s rush-hour traffic. “You haven’t even broken a sweat,” I joke. “I have. I’m sweating,” he insists. But Mukherjee… Continue reading Siddhartha Mukherjee tackles mental illness with The Gene

Exclusive: An excerpt from Arundhati Roy’s encounter with Edward Snowden

ICYMI Man Booker Prize-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy talks about everything from writing, fighting and aerobics with ELLE this month. She also gave us a glimpse of her forthcoming book: Things That Can And Cannot Be Said (Juggernaut) on her meeting with Edward Snowden. “It’s a small book co-authored by me and actor John Cusack, who… Continue reading Exclusive: An excerpt from Arundhati Roy’s encounter with Edward Snowden

The wisdom of Arundhati Roy in 10 quotes

Acutely intelligent, Arundhati Roy (read our interview with her here) has kept forest fires ablaze in the intellectual community since she published her scathing takedown of Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen in 1994. When she spoke to ELLE, we discovered, at the heart of this sharp woman was a dizzying, girlish, humanness that made us want… Continue reading The wisdom of Arundhati Roy in 10 quotes

Book of the week: The Gospel of Yudas by K.R. Meera

Cliffsnotes: It is well after 1977, but a little riverside village in Kerala is still in an Emergency state of mind. Prema, the fifteen-year old daughter of a tyrannical ex-policeman, is young and wild, but not free. She seeks salvation in the Naxal ideology her father so ruthlessly crushed before he was struck with Parkinson’s… Continue reading Book of the week: The Gospel of Yudas by K.R. Meera

Susan Miller’s shocking predictions for 2016…and 2017!

When I was introduced to the Internet, circa 1997-98, it was Susan Miller’s site that I logged on to first: Astrologyzone.com. It’s still the one site I visit on the 1st of every month. Her predictions are spot on, right down to the window of dates she lists, and that’s also what has made her… Continue reading Susan Miller’s shocking predictions for 2016…and 2017!

Book of the week: The Course Of Love by Alain de Botton

Cliffsnotes: Love as skill. Love as work. Love as disenchantment. Love in the time of averageness and adulthood. “We all know the headiness and excitement of love’s early days, but what can be expected over a shared lifetime?” In Alain de Botton’s surgical style, The Course Of Love answers this by partly retelling and partly reflecting… Continue reading Book of the week: The Course Of Love by Alain de Botton

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