Between the Lines: A Critical Reader caters to diverse themes across literature, cut across different countries and writers. Some of them are alienation, identity, death, society, anxiety, depression, romance, miscommunication, madness, women, dreams, escape, disillusionment, displacement, eco-spiritual, history, crime, gander, class struggle and third gander etc.The volume does not try to group them under certain categories, as a single chapter can be read and understood as the intertext of others in which the themes often overlapped.The chapters often try to read a new area of interest in literature under enquiry. However, at times they also look into their conventional understanding not for re-enforcement, rather to re-read and deviate from them for novelty.