Literature
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An alternative literary prize aims to be what the Nobel Prize hasn’t been – inclusive and democratic
Sana Goyal
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‘Half The Night is Gone’: This unmistakably great novel stops short with its political provocations
Supriya Nair
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How do young children read about the death of someone they love? This book shows the way
Shikhandin
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A meditation: Han Kang’s ‘White Book’ truly deserves a description that is overused for fiction now
Sayali Palekar
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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
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Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done
Saikat Majumdar
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Before (and after) García Márquez and Vargas Llosa: Five Latin authors you should be reading now
Laura Lomas, The Conversation
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Like its subject, Yoko Tawada’s ‘The Emissary’ is hallucinatory and contaminated
Brian Haman
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Why France fell in love with an Indian female author after her death in 19th century
Blake Smith
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Why does Subramania Bharati mean so little to non-Tamil India?
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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Adieu, Philip Roth, you seeped through our skins (while we weren’t looking)
Sayantan Ghosh
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From Sidney Sheldon to online fan fiction, why erotica is so popular as a way to explore sexuality
Richa Kaul Padte
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The literary establishment may have detested him, but Tom Wolfe elevated journalism to literature
William McKeen, The Conversation
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Balakumaran (1946-2018) struck a chord with readers because he gave a voice to ordinary individuals
N Kalyan Raman
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The British royal wedding: Here’s what one of the world’s greatest novels teaches us about marriage
Richard Gunderman, The Conversation
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Current Affairs May 7th 2018
Scroll Staff
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What makes a translation great? Ten literary translators from across the world weigh in
Katy Derbyshire
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Premchand portrayed humans with great sensitivity, but he was just as good writing about animals
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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‘Dream of the Red Chamber’: Why you should read a 2,500-page-long, 18th century Chinese novel
Josh Stenberg, The Conversation
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Remembering the writer who redefined Madurai: Arshia, aka Syed Hussain Basha ( 1959-2018)
Kavitha Muralidharan