Literature
-
Will India’s literary prizes outlive the pandemic? The DSC Prize’s Surina Narula has an answer
Surina Narula
-
New to graphic novels? Start with these five classics that has had millions hooked over the decades
David Brauner, The Conversation
-
Dancer Leela Samson to chair jury for India’s richest literary award, the JCB Prize for Literature
Scroll Staff
-
‘Small Days and Nights’: Tishani Doshi’s novel is shortlisted for the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize
Tishani Doshi
-
Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes
Calvert Jones, Aeon Celia Paris, Aeon
-
Ian McEwan’s nod to Franz Kafka: A cockroach finds itself transformed into the UK prime minister
Rabeea Saleem, Dawn.com
-
Will the post-pandemic world be a feminist one? The story ‘Sultana’s Dream’ may provide a template
Lopa Ghosh
-
How a book club helped Britons deal with World War II (and what we can learn from it)
Nicola Wilson, The Conversation
-
Nature’s rhythm and rhyme: Remembering William Wordsworth 250 years since his birth
Sally Bushell, The Conversation
-
What can literature tell us about the post-coronavirus world that lies beyond the dark mountains?
Rajat Chaudhuri
-
Unmade in India: Five homegrown dystopian books that have been where we hope not to go
Annika Taneja
-
Five detective novels you can read to beat the boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown
James Peacock, The Conversation
-
Lockdown reading: If you’re looking for escape, here are five Victorian novels to transport you
Pam Lock, The Conversation
-
A brief literary companion to solitude in modern classics for the self-isolated reader
Sayandeb Chowdhury
-
Who says you don’t have to go to school just because you’re dead? Not in this novel
Anita Roy
-
Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America
Jason Miller, The Conversation
-
What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response
Rohan Parikh
-
Mirza Waheed wins the Hindu Prize 2019 for fiction, Santanu Das for non-fiction
Mirza Waheed Santanu Das
-
‘The Masque of the Red Death’: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 19th-century tale
Edgar Allan Poe
-
‘The Play Of Dolls’: Kunwar Narain’s early short fiction also shows why he was a legendary poet
Kunwar Narain