How the pandemic is depriving lovers of Urdu literature of their environment for enjoyment

Mahtab Alam

· Jul 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

First person: How Navayana, publisher of anti-caste literature, was born, and where it is going now

S Anand

· Jul 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why writers and publishers must tell the stories of the pandemic in a new way, with empathy

Aditya Sudarshan

· Jul 06, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

The absurdity of literary festivals (in the third world) in time of the pandemic and after

Ahsan Akbar

· Jun 24, 2020 · 07:30 am

A pandemic wipes out most of the male population in a recent novel from South Africa

Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation

· Jun 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) immortalised the Civil War, Spain’s favourite modern Gothic tale

Xavier Aldana Reyes, The Conversation

· Jun 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Father’s Day: What Ernest Hemingway felt about fatherhood, in his fiction and in his life

Verna Kale, The Conversation

· Jun 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm

While the pandemic forces publishers to slow down, this literary journal is relaunching itself

Kanishka Gupta

· Jun 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time

Olivia Majumdar

· Jun 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why fan fiction about Charles Dickens’ life is just as much a part of his literary legacy

Lucy Whitehead, The Conversation

· Jun 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

For the Rainbow Lit Fest with LGBTQ+ themes, Covid-19 is a speed-breaker, not a permanent barrier

Sharif D Rangnekar

· Jun 09, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Goodbye Asif Farrukhi (1959-2020): Writer, translator, editor, and lover of fine literature

Saif Mahmood

· Jun 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why is the Covid-19 pandemic being compared to war? Western literature from the 1800s has answers

Julia M Wright, The Conversation

· May 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why moving online is both possible and difficult for children’s literature festivals

Venkatesh M Swamy

· May 17, 2020 · 08:30 am

How science fiction can offer solace and build resilience in these strange times

Esther Jones, The Conversation

· May 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How to not be mentally distressed during the lockdown: Read Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’

Ipshita Mitra

· May 09, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Samit Basu’s new novel looks at how reality is shaped and what humans can do about it

Diyasree Chattopadhyay

· May 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

As writers document the pandemic through poetry, here is a chance to understand this form

Andrew McMillan, The Conversation

· May 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm