Vivek Narayanan’s ‘After’ is a modern retelling of the ‘Valmiki Ramayana’ that keeps the characters of the text grounded.

The 1997 version had a group of teens in an atmospheric fishing town called Southport being hunted down by a psychotic, hook-flashing fisherman, the summer after they unwittingly ran over a mysterious ...

Boris Akunin carved his literary legacy with detective novels set in imperial Russia, works that made him one of the ...