To read Samanta Schweblin’s short stories is to expect a dry mouth and a loss of words

Sana Goyal

· Feb 09, 2019 · 07:30 am

Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘A Handful Of Sesame’: This Kannada novel places the reader at the centre of a broken universe

Suhasini Patni

· Feb 02, 2019 · 07:00 am

How can literature catch a sense of lived time? Are both fiction and living a necessary illusion?

Prasanta Chakravarty

· Feb 01, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A hodgepodge of scumbags, orgies, and the breakdown of society: Also known as Juvenal’s ‘Satires’

Robert Cowan, The Conversation

· Jan 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Mohsin Hamid represents Pakistani literature to many, but gives no real sense of Muslim existence

Zain R Mian

· Jan 30, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What translating Krishna Sobti revealed: She did not write to help the reader understand

Daisy Rockwell

· Jan 27, 2019 · 10:30 am

Krishna Sobti (1925-2019): The fearless writer who always put her relationship with herself on trial

Sukrita Paul Kumar

· Jan 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Meet Colette: writer, feminist, performer, and gender-fluid #MeToo trailblazer

Diana Holmes, The Conversation

· Jan 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

An epic work of Hindi fiction is finding its way to more readers through translation

Upendranath Ashk

· Jan 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel proves that fiction offers many sides to a story when history provides a single version

Ibtisam Ahmed

· Jan 19, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why ‘The Water Margin’, China’s outlaw novel from the 14th century, keeps getting modern versions

Josh Stenberg, The Conversation

· Jan 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In ‘Conversations’, Jorge Luis Borges revealed the dreams, mirrors and labyrinths of his art

Devdan Chaudhuri

· Jan 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Life is non-literary, unstructured. We try to give our own structure to it’: Writer Jayant Kaikini

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

How the ghazal traveled from 6th-century Arabia to Persia, India and the English-speaking world

Anisur Rahman

· Jan 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

Photos from ‘Schippeitaro’, a Japanese fairy tale about sinister dancing cats and a heroic dog

Yasuyo Ohtsuka

· Jan 03, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Charles Dickens popularised the traditional Christmas meal but what did people feast on before that?

Joan Fitzpatrick, The Conversation

· Dec 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How to understand apocalyptic events through literature (and a handy reading list)

Sheheryar Badar Sheikh, The Conversation

· Dec 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Jeanne Britton, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm