Dineshnandini: The writer who lost more from love and life than she gained from literature

Saudamini Deo

· Apr 28, 2019 · 08:30 am

The Notre Dame fire has created a new Victor Hugo moment for lovers of literature and history

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· Apr 27, 2019 · 07:30 am

A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Apr 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel

Asif Farrukhi

· Apr 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers

Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

80 years before Bram Stoker, it was a young English doctor who introduced us to the modern vampire

Robert Morrison, The Conversation

· Apr 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’ needs no coherent plot – it is a memory of conflicted times

Soni Wadhwa

· Apr 01, 2019 · 08:30 am

Five books on work by French authors that you can read on your commute – to work

Amy Wigelsworth, The Conversation

· Mar 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Revisiting the works of Rajkamal Chowdhary, the writer whom Hindi literature could never categorise

Saudamini Deo

· Mar 24, 2019 · 07:00 am

The story of ‘Chocolate’, the Hindi story published in 1924 that created a furore over homosexuality

Rohit Chakraborty

· Mar 23, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times

Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation

· Mar 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Don’t listen to the critics – science fiction explores what it means to be human in the truest way

Gene Tracy

· Mar 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Just how global is the 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist of translated fiction?

Sana Goyal

· Mar 17, 2019 · 10:30 am

This highly dramatic Thai novel is a meditation on sorrow and loneliness (because it is about love)

Suhasini Patni

· Mar 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘We have an assembly line approach to writing about books’: Anjum Hasan on literary criticism

Arunava Sinha

· Mar 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Writing my novel was an artistic as well as erotic experience’, one novelist tells another

Vivek Shanbhag

· Mar 10, 2019 · 07:00 am

Do literary translations need financial patronage? Ask Kalpana Raina, who has been doing just that

Mohini Gupta

· Mar 03, 2019 · 07:00 am

Namvar Singh (1927-2019) was the most powerful critic and influencer of modern Hindi literature

Priyadarshan

· Feb 23, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Enheduanna: The world’s first known author was a priestess in ancient Mesopotamia

Louise Pryke, The Conversation

· Feb 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm