Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists

Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation

· Jan 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

There is a surprisingly rich tradition of hangover literature in western culture

Jonathan Shears, The Conversation

· Jan 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How do you retell a classic that has already been retold several times over? Ask Gayathri Prabhu

Gayathri Prabhu

· Dec 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘I conceived the book as a cosmological novel’: Chigozie Obioma on ‘An Orchestra of Minorities’

Shireen Quadri

· Dec 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How to make merry amidst so much misery: Timeless advice from the 1830s

Robert Morrison, The Conversation

· Dec 23, 2019 · 09:30 pm

When Ismat Chughtai re-imagined the battle of Karbala in her book ‘One Drop of Blood’

Ismat Chughtai

· Dec 19, 2019 · 07:30 am

This medieval feminist wrote about domestic abuse and sexuality, and composed an ode to the vagina

Rhea Seren Phillips, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ wins $25,000-DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019

Scroll Staff

· Dec 17, 2019 · 01:11 am

‘I have no contempt for the ordinary’: Lucy Ellmann, author of a 430,000-word, 1034-page novel

Shireen Quadri

· Dec 14, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Don’t act as if you’re all alone’: 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Peter Handke’s lecture

Peter Handke

· Dec 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Fiction has lost the readers’ trust’: 2018 Literature Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s lecture

Olga Tokarczuk

· Dec 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on

Yuvraj Nathani

· Dec 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon

Doseline Kiguru, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Poet Akkitham’s Jnanpith award recognises an epic literary journey out of tradition into modernity

Santosh Alex

· Dec 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

Writer George Eliot has valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers

Helen Kingstone, The Conversation

· Nov 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends

Suhasini Patni

· Nov 24, 2019 · 08:30 am

This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan

Intizar Husain

· Nov 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?

Hattie Adam-Smith

· Nov 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm