In a novel where Foucault is quoted in love letters, it's the quiet reader who is finally celebrate Rheea Mukherjee's debut novel The Body Myth is an ambitious, emotionally rich story that explores love, illness, family and philosophy. The protagonis

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Of all the revelations in Padma Lakshmi's memoir, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, one was the most surprising. Every year that Salman Rushdie did not win the Nobel Prize for Literature, his petulant moping needed consolation. Given their considered pros