Manil Suri’s oddly compelling first novel so clearly has the structure of an allegory that sensible readers, weary of overambitious debuts, might be tempted to avoid it. That would be a mistake. The ...

Early in Manil Suri’s dynamic first novel “The Death of Vishnu,” Mrs. Asrani, one of two loathsome and warring Hindu housewives, cries, “If we can’t all live in harmony in this building, what hope is ...

WE RIDE SHOTGUN WITH car-tuner Shiv Pathak as he test drives his new Evo VIII, in which he has just remapped the input to the engine control unit via his dyno and laptop computer. At a stop, a ...

The first time we ever met Shiv Pathak he was—no lie—surrounded by cheerleaders. This was all the more amazing because Pathak is not overwhelmingly handsome, was not rich and is by profession a ...