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· Mar 13, 2025 · 05:30 pm

How a Henry James novel helps explain the fascination with murder suspect Luigi Mangione

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· Jan 26, 2025 · 05:30 pm

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· Dec 22, 2024 · 08:30 am

Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Gyan Ka Gyan’, by Hridaynarayan Dikshit

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· Jul 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm

A new book of classical Indian literature shows the connections between various literary traditions

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· Jul 01, 2024 · 01:30 pm

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· Nov 26, 2023 · 05:30 pm

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· Oct 23, 2023 · 05:30 pm

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· Dec 10, 2022 · 12:30 pm

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· Aug 30, 2022 · 05:30 pm

What makes the ‘Hitopadesha’ a timeless text on human behaviour? It is its playful language

Shonaleeka Kaul

· Aug 09, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Ulysses at 100: why James Joyce was so obsessed with the perfect blue cover

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· Feb 02, 2022 · 05:30 pm

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Hetta Howes, The Conversation

· Jan 24, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Born 200 years ago, what is Fyodor Dostoevsky telling us today through his novels?

Richard Herrett

· Nov 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Marquis de Sade wrote violent pornographic fiction. I translated his only gothic novel into English

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· Oct 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm