Siddhartha Deb is the author of the novels The Point of Return (2002), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic (2005), longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His non-fiction book The Beautiful and the Damned (2011) was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and received the PEN Open award. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, n+1, The Nation, and Dissent. The Light at the End of the World (2023) is his latest new novel.