books
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‘The Bicycle Diaries’: The tale of Indian cyclists who circumnavigated the world of a century ago
Savia Viegas Anoop Babani
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How an 1822 publication by the Calcutta School Book Society brought animal biographies to students
Abhijit Gupta
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Four Haitian-authored novels that guide readers through the country’s history and reality
Marlene Daut, The Conversation
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A reader’s guide to the 13 books longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Suhasini Patni
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On top of the world: How writers seek solace in hill station literature
Rajni George
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How Samik Bandyopadhyay built a collection of 40,000 books that he’s donating to create a library
Anchita Ghatak
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Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss racist titles an erasure of history?
Monica Eileen Patterson, The Conversation
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These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support
Scroll Staff
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How music shaped Virginia Woolf’s writing
Emma Sutton, The Conversation
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Remembering the first Indian author who won America’s top children’s literature prize
Anu Kumar
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Meet six wise women who shaped the development of philosophy in the West
Dawn LaValle Norman, The Conversation
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Cat in a spat: Why scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture
Kate Cantrell, The Conversation Sharon Bickle, The Conversation
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How reading books aloud can draw us into intimacies
Kiera Vaclavik, The Conversation
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Why it’s better to start reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ from chapter four than from chapter one
John Scholar, The Conversation
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This second-hand bookseller revived his business during the pandemic by selling ‘rare books’ online
Shashikant Sawant
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Here’s what makes Assassin’s Creed one of the world’s best-selling videogame series
Tof Eklund, The Conversation
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Why books by social media influencers about feminism (or self-help?) seem so similar to one another
Rebecca Wray, The Conversation
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A look back at banned Indian political pamphlets – and why Orwell may not have approved of them
Pragya Dhital
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In Goa’s Margao, a book club thriving on physical meetings has shown how to switch to the virtual
Savia Viegas
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How footballer Marcus Rashford’s book club will bring literature to underprivileged children
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, The Conversation