books
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Fifteen books with which to travel through nature when journeying out is impossible
Janice Pariat
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Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’ won in one of the most politically charged Booker Prize shortlists
Stevie Marsden, The Conversation
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How IIT alumni built a book club in Chennai and kept it going through the pandemic
Sukumari Polavaram
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‘Children’s literature is the first portal for humans to the cultural world’: Oliver Jeffers
Bijal Vachharajani
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Sixty years of the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: A court case that defined free expression
Lois Bibbings, The Conversation
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Here’s why so many people still believe in ghosts
Anna Stone, The Conversation
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Amartya Sen: ‘World is facing pandemic of authoritarianism’
Amartya Sen
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In this graphic novel a schoolgirl becomes an online sensation, but no one knows it’s her
Vibha Batra Kalyani Ganapathy
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What books on the pandemic, published during and after the lockdown, are telling us about Covid-19
Biman Nath
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Dying of Covid-19: What reading Atul Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal’ makes us think about right now
Subuhi Jiwani
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Can books be distributed in newer ways during the pandemic and after? Can they even be reinvented?
Bhairavi Jani
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In the Shakespearean world, Hamlet is a ‘villain of genius’. Here’s why
Catherine Butler, The Conversation
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Why American poet Louise Glück was a ‘safe’ Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2020
Nikolai Duffy, The Conversation
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Economists have a lot more in common with literature, especially novels, than hard science
Carolin Benack, The Conversation
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From books on the metro to books in the courier, this book-sharing service has reinvented itself
Shruti Sharma
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How has Covid-19 changed the way the world reads? Let us count the ways
Abigail Boucher, The Conversation Chloe Harrison, The Conversation Marcello Giovanelli, The Conversation
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The pandemic made this writer live briefly with her younger self (and the books they share)
Arshia Sattar
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Can this artificial intelligence program replace writers, journalists and poets?
Prasenjit Mitra, The Conversation
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‘The Discomfort of Evening’: What readers need to know about the Booker International Prize winner
Nawaid Anjum
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The legibility of loneliness: Why the lockdown has been a gift to this designer of book covers
Ahlawat Gunjan