He did it for the second time now — and I was ready, though barely. The first time I had picked up a Nathan Hill novel, it was because I trusted NPR . On my drive back home from work one evening, the radio announced that Nathan Hill had arrived with his debut — The Nix . As an obedient disciple, I took the next turn, parked in the Barnes & Noble lot, and walked straight to my house of worship. I started on the book that very evening. Oh boy — he had arrived, all right. It wa

Saturday it stopped raining after a spell of ten days. Bangalore had the shine back on its dust again. As the afternoon progressed into...