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

An alternative literary prize aims to be what the Nobel Prize hasn’t been – inclusive and democratic

Sana Goyal

· Jul 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Half The Night is Gone’: This unmistakably great novel stops short with its political provocations

Supriya Nair

· Jul 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

How do young children read about the death of someone they love? This book shows the way

Shikhandin

· Jun 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A meditation: Han Kang’s ‘White Book’ truly deserves a description that is overused for fiction now

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Eight bedtime stories to read to children of all ages (but they’re all from the West)

Raluca Radulescu, The Conversation Lisa Blower, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 07:15 am

Before (and after) García Márquez and Vargas Llosa: Five Latin authors you should be reading now

Laura Lomas, The Conversation

· Jun 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Like its subject, Yoko Tawada’s ‘The Emissary’ is hallucinatory and contaminated

Brian Haman

· Jun 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why France fell in love with an Indian female author after her death in 19th century

Blake Smith

· May 31, 2018 · 11:30 am

Why does Subramania Bharati mean so little to non-Tamil India?

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· May 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

Adieu, Philip Roth, you seeped through our skins (while we weren’t looking)

Sayantan Ghosh

· May 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

From Sidney Sheldon to online fan fiction, why erotica is so popular as a way to explore sexuality

Richa Kaul Padte

· May 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

The literary establishment may have detested him, but Tom Wolfe elevated journalism to literature

William McKeen, The Conversation

· May 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Balakumaran (1946-2018) struck a chord with readers because he gave a voice to ordinary individuals

N Kalyan Raman

· May 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The British royal wedding: Here’s what one of the world’s greatest novels teaches us about marriage

Richard Gunderman, The Conversation

· May 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

Current Affairs May 7th 2018

Scroll Staff

· May 07, 2018 · 01:27 pm

What makes a translation great? Ten literary translators from across the world weigh in

Katy Derbyshire

· Apr 30, 2018 · 08:30 am