JCB Prize longlist: What we think about when we think about contemporary fiction from India

Sana Goyal

· Sep 09, 2018 · 07:00 am

Our adventurous reader is back with his version of the 2018 Man Booker shortlist before the real one

Ranjit Mankeshwar

· Sep 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

Good riddance to bad 377: A reading list to celebrate

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Sep 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How is VS Naipaul received in the classrooms of his homeland (the Caribbean, not India)?

J. Vijay Maharaj, The Conversation

· Sep 05, 2018 · 07:08 pm

KM Munshi’s philosophy of Gujarati ‘asmita’ and a revised version of history is a familiar one today

Rita Kothari Abhijit Kothari

· Sep 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘We have to seek the outlier, not the mainstream writer’: Arshia Sattar on judging literary prizes

Kanishka Gupta

· Sep 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Why Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel ‘Sabrina’ deserves to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Sourjya Mitra

· Sep 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami selected as finalists for the ‘Alternative Literature Nobel’

Scroll Staff

· Aug 30, 2018 · 10:36 am

Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel

Jenny Bhatt

· Aug 26, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A Japanese novel about an unambitious store clerk who refuses to change is earning praise. Why?

Rashmi Patel

· Aug 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Over 150 years later, Maupassant’s fiction is remembered for the questions it asked of morality

M Saad

· Aug 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Aug 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Graphic novels are novels’: Why the Booker Prize judges were right to choose one for its longlist

Claire Nally, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why I liked Emily Brontë’s distance from India (and why she might have an Indian connection)

Girish Shahane

· Aug 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works, now translated into English

Soni Wadhwa

· Aug 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Why should I carry filth on my head?’: Dalit writer Baburao Bagul’s fiction was a cry of protest

Baburao Bagul

· Aug 01, 2018 · 08:30 am

Michael Ondaatje’s win of the Golden Man Booker highlights many of the problems of the prize

Jody Mason, The Conversation Dessa Bayrock, The Conversation

· Jul 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A modern, abridged retelling of ‘Saraswatichandra’ offers a debatable way to read a classic

Rita Kothari

· Jul 28, 2018 · 07:00 am

Missing the World Cup? Here’s what some of the world’s finest authors wrote about football

Somak Mukherjee

· Jul 21, 2018 · 06:30 pm

William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills

Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2018 · 06:30 pm