Lockdown reading: Eight novels from Africa offer reflections on disease, death and isolation

Isabel Hofmeyr, The Conversation Aretha Phiri, The Conversation Grace Musila, The Conversation Manosa Nthunya, The Conversation Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation Sam Naidu, The Conversation Sarah Nuttall, The Conversation Susan Kiguli, The Conversation Tom Odhiambo, The Conversation

· May 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Litfests after Covid-19: How physical distancing and travel restrictions will affect literary events

Malavika Banerjee

· May 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

A writer from Peshawar imagines a visit to the city by Orhan Pamuk

Aurangzaib Khan, Dawn.com

· May 02, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Will India’s literary prizes outlive the pandemic? The DSC Prize’s Surina Narula has an answer

Surina Narula

· May 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

New to graphic novels? Start with these five classics that has had millions hooked over the decades

David Brauner, The Conversation

· Apr 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Dancer Leela Samson to chair jury for India’s richest literary award, the JCB Prize for Literature

Scroll Staff

· Apr 23, 2020 · 03:10 pm

‘Small Days and Nights’: Tishani Doshi’s novel is shortlisted for the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize

Tishani Doshi

· Apr 22, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Can dystopian fiction the ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ series shape real-world political attitudes

Calvert Jones, Aeon Celia Paris, Aeon

· Apr 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Ian McEwan’s nod to Franz Kafka: A cockroach finds itself transformed into the UK prime minister

Rabeea Saleem, Dawn.com

· Apr 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Will the post-pandemic world be a feminist one? The story ‘Sultana’s Dream’ may provide a template

Lopa Ghosh

· Apr 18, 2020 · 12:30 pm

How a book club helped Britons deal with World War II (and what we can learn from it)

Nicola Wilson, The Conversation

· Apr 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Nature’s rhythm and rhyme: Remembering William Wordsworth 250 years since his birth

Sally Bushell, The Conversation

· Apr 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What can literature tell us about the post-coronavirus world that lies beyond the dark mountains?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Apr 11, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Unmade in India: Five homegrown dystopian books that have been where we hope not to go

Annika Taneja

· Apr 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Five detective novels you can read to beat the boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown

James Peacock, The Conversation

· Apr 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Lockdown reading: If you’re looking for escape, here are five Victorian novels to transport you

Pam Lock, The Conversation

· Apr 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A brief literary companion to solitude in modern classics for the self-isolated reader

Sayandeb Chowdhury

· Apr 05, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who says you don’t have to go to school just because you’re dead? Not in this novel

Anita Roy

· Apr 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America

Jason Miller, The Conversation

· Mar 30, 2020 · 03:30 pm

What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response

Rohan Parikh

· Mar 28, 2020 · 07:30 am