#Books

Booker Prize 2024

Booker Prize 2024: Six novels on shortlist delve into ‘fault lines of our times’, five by women

17 Sept 2024 2:10 AM GMT

Libgen-Internet Archive

Why the fate of LibGen, Internet Archive matters, and what it says about open knowledge

10 Sept 2024 1:00 AM GMT

JCB Prize for Literature

2024 JCB Prize for Literature: Longlist split evenly between English novels, translations

8 Sept 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Priyanka Mattoo

Priyanka Mattoo interview: ‘Losing someone over Kashmir was more painful, it affects everything’

25 Aug 2024 7:06 AM GMT

Non-fiction books on Partition

Eight non-fiction books that capture the tragedy and trauma of Partition, and its aftermath

15 Aug 2024 4:52 PM GMT

In Pursuit of Freedom

How the wounds of Partition have fuelled communal tension in Godhra since 1947

15 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Partition Novels

16 essential books of fiction on Partition: Stories of loss, barbarity, survival, and hope

15 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse

How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse

13 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

The Company of Violent Men

The Company of Violent Men review: An unfiltered account of reporting from conflict zones

12 Aug 2024 2:40 AM GMT

The Many Lives of Syeda X

The Many Lives of Syeda X review: Powerful portrait of India’s hapless migrants, helpless poor

11 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Muhammad Yunus

Four essential books by Nobel laureate and Bangladesh interim PM Muhammad Yunus

8 Aug 2024 10:18 AM GMT

Why shared reading is the new bonding language for book worms

Why shared reading is the new bonding language for book worms

7 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

How award-winning writer Jamuna Bini is popularising tales of Arunachal Pradesh through Hindi

How award-winning writer Jamuna Bini is popularising tales of Arunachal Pradesh through Hindi

1 Aug 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Booker Prize 2024

Booker Prize 2024 longlist: 13 books explore ‘what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return’

31 July 2024 2:50 AM GMT

Kamal Haasan

‘Pushpak’: How Kamal Haasan’s silent comedy satirised standard romantic story

11 July 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada

Shahu Patole interview: How ‘Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada’ links food with caste system

7 July 2024 9:10 AM GMT

Metamorphoses: In Search of Kafka

How Kafka’s fraught relationship with his father shaped his writing

26 Jun 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Jassa Ahluwalia

Jassa Ahluwalia interview: ‘None of us are half anything. We’re all whole, multiple beings’

19 Jun 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Nusrat F. Jafri

Nusrat F. Jafri interview: ‘CAA, NRC protests made writing This Land We Call Home urgent’

8 Jun 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Watch | MK Raina interview: ‘Theatre has disappeared from the big scene’

Watch | MK Raina interview: ‘Theatre has disappeared from the big scene’

23 May 2024 11:10 AM GMT

Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

How the seven Cleopatras set a new model for female power in ancient Egypt

23 May 2024 3:16 AM GMT

10 short story collections by Alice Munro that chronicle the woman experience

10 short story collections by Alice Munro that chronicle the woman experience

17 May 2024 2:38 AM GMT

Watch | Pallavi Rebbapragada interview: ’Nandini Satpathy is an inspiration for GenZ’

Watch | Pallavi Rebbapragada interview: ’Nandini Satpathy is an inspiration for GenZ’

10 May 2024 12:09 PM GMT

How Maratha warrior Kanhoji Angre became the ‘Shivaji of the Seas’

How Maratha warrior Kanhoji Angre became the ‘Shivaji of the Seas’

7 May 2024 12:22 PM GMT

Never Never Land

Namita Gokhale’s Never Never Land: Reading a Kumaoni novel in Kumaon

5 May 2024 1:00 AM GMT

Jugal Hansraj

Jugal Hansraj interview: ‘I visualise scenes in my head and play them out like a film’

15 April 2024 6:35 AM GMT

John Barth

John Barth: The American master of high satire, keen purveyor of metafiction

14 April 2024 4:00 AM GMT

Kisses and Cliffhangers: How women reshaped romance literature

Kisses and Cliffhangers: How women reshaped romance literature

1 April 2024 1:00 AM GMT

End of Story by A.J. Finn

A. J. Finn interview: ‘Characters tell the stories themselves’

31 March 2024 4:30 AM GMT

Veronica Raimo

Veronica Raimo interview: ‘Every autobiography is a form of fiction’

27 March 2024 1:00 AM GMT

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