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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Mishra, Poddar, Bennet, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Pankaj MishraNamrata PoddarClaire-Louise Bennet, and more—that are publishing this week.

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Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

Here’s what  about : “Mishra returns to fiction (after , a collection of criticism) with a circuitous story of an Indian man opting out of an ostensibly bright future. Arun Dwivedi, a literary translator, recounts his life to a writer named Alia, who is working on a book about India’s new global power brokers with a focus on his former classmates at the cutthroat Indian Institute

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