Karan Mahajan is a Joseph Henry Jackson Award-winning Indian novelist. Mahajan was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in New Delhi, India. He studied English and Economics at Stanford University. He currently lives in Fort Greene.
Something Rotten (2025) Andrew Lipstein "Something Rotten is an outraged and up-to-the-minute satire of American masculinity and nationalism that cleverly uses its setting--Copenhagen, Denmark--as a dark mirror to America's psychoses. A funny, moving, and surprising bicontinental novel."
The Spoiled Heart (2024) Sunjeev Sahota "Fearlessly contemporary and flawlessly observed, The Spoiled Heart confirms Sunjeev Sahota's position as one of our essential novelists."
The Best Possible Experience (2023) Nishanth Injam "In these wise, intricate stories, Nishanth Injam shows us, with lancing clarity, the shame and embarrassment of immigration, the ways in which relationships form and dissolve around silences. His is an arresting new voice in contemporary Indian--and American--fiction."
A Flaw in the Design (2023) Nathan Oates "What happens when a (possibly murderous) sociopath takes a writing workshop? This is the premise of Nathan Oates's delicious, inexorable, fast-paced tale of obsession - a thriller that will keep you reading till the end."
The Immortal King Rao (2022) Vauhini Vara "Vauhini Vara comes out the gate with a masterwork: a book that is three great novels in one: the tale of a thriving and chaotic Dalit clan in the first decades of independent India; an immigrant success story in '80s America; and a dystopian nightmare of the post-Trump future."
The Mysteries (2021) Marisa Silver "Clear-eyed and devastating, Marisa Silver's The Mysteries is full of wisdom about grief, but also about the joys of childhood. Silver is the rare writer who can write in any register, about any age and state of being."
The Vietri Project (2021) Nicola DeRobertis-Theye "Few books treat history as part of the natural fabric of life rather than a murky backdrop; this is one of them. The Vietri Project establishes Nicola DeRobertis-Theye as a contemporary of questing writers like Teju Cole and Rachel Cusk."
99 Nights in Logar (2019) Jamil Jan Kochai "Ferocious, funny, rude, and freewheeling, 99 Nights in Logar is an insider’s portrait of modern Afghanistan—written with deep affection and zero piety. A brilliant and stylish debut."
Trinity (2018) Louisa Hall "Trinity is an intelligent and sweeping account of the characters - some real, some fictional - swirling around the testing of the first atomic bomb. It is also an affecting meditation on the ways in which we betray others and, in the process, ourselves."
The Incendiaries (2018) R O Kwon "A swift, sensual novel about the unraveling of a collegiate relationship and its aftermath. Kwon writes gracefully about the spiritual insecurities of millennials."
