Why ‘hygge’ is the go-to concept for happiness that has spawned an entire publishing genre

Devapriya Roy

· Dec 18, 2016 · 07:45 am

Did you know the beloved author of ‘Pippi Longstocking’ also documented the horrors of World War II?

Anu Kumar

· Dec 17, 2016 · 03:30 pm

Marriage and the devil both play prominent roles in this new comic novel from Sri Lanka

Ashok Ferrey

· Dec 17, 2016 · 10:30 am

Namita Gokhale’s new novel of the Himalayas reminds us that history cannot be separated from fiction

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Dec 17, 2016 · 08:30 am

What a first-time writer learnt about how to make a bestseller in India

Anu Vaidyanathan

· Dec 17, 2016 · 06:30 am

Shiv Visvanathan on the importance of being (and thinking like) Devdutt Pattanaik

Shiv Visvanathan

· Dec 16, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why we can continue to like VS Naipaul’s novels while opposing his ideas

Rifat Munim

· Dec 15, 2016 · 08:30 am

This novel from Indonesia tries to undo a myth from the Mahabharata

Laksmi Pamuntjak

· Dec 14, 2016 · 08:30 am

Ruskin Bond’s Miss Ripley-Bean is back, to investigate unnatural deaths

Ruskin Bond

· Dec 12, 2016 · 08:30 am

The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert)

Smriti Daniel

· Dec 11, 2016 · 12:30 pm

What Greek myths have in common with Indian mythology (and why it matters)

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Dec 11, 2016 · 08:30 am

Will this novel be a bestseller, as its author and publishers hope? This will help you decide

Ira Trivedi

· Dec 11, 2016 · 07:45 am

PG Wodehouse shrugs off wartime controversy to take his place among the greats

Christine Berberich, The Conversation

· Dec 11, 2016 · 07:15 am

When Rabindranath Tagore heard that he had won the Nobel Prize, 105 years ago

Aruna Chakravarti

· Dec 10, 2016 · 05:30 pm

‘I write about 350 jokes per book. I throw away about a third of them’: Jeff ‘Wimpy Kid’ Kinney

Neha Bhatt

· Dec 10, 2016 · 07:30 am

The ambitious modern Indian version of ‘Don Quixote’ tries gallantly but falls short

Devapriya Roy

· Dec 10, 2016 · 06:30 am

A dastangoi tells the story of the Pakistani author Intizar Husain

Mahmood Farooqui

· Dec 09, 2016 · 08:30 am

The pre-Independence novel that’s actually about love, not the Partition

Lavanya Shanbhogue-Arvind

· Dec 08, 2016 · 08:30 am

It’s not easy to get a political thriller right. This novel does it

Jai Arjun Singh

· Dec 07, 2016 · 08:30 am

How Swedish literature reflects the benefits of a shorter working day

BJ Epstein, The Conversation

· Dec 05, 2016 · 08:30 am