In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp claimed to no longer be making art, and began to devote considerable time to chess. He’d grown up battling with his older brothers, Raymond and Jacques, and in his later ...

Chess, boardroom challenges, war, poetry… all come together in Nihshanka Debroy’s début novel Checkmate. On the one hand is Harshavardhan — the author clarifies right at the beginning that this ...