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Novels

When classic stories get reinvented, can they ever be a success? Five get reviewed

Hetta Howes, The Conversation
· Jan 24, 2022 · 05:30 pm
Four Haitian-authored novels that guide readers through the country’s history and reality

Marlene Daut, The Conversation
· Aug 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm
How fiction can help business managers prepare for the uncertainties of the pandemic

Nada Elnahla, The Conversation Ruth McKay, The Conversation
· Mar 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Hercule Poirot, still the world’s most loved detective, turns 100

Christopher Pittard, The Conversation
· Jan 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Why it’s better to start reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ from chapter four than from chapter one

John Scholar, The Conversation
· Jan 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Here’s what makes Assassin’s Creed one of the world’s best-selling videogame series

Tof Eklund, The Conversation
· Dec 27, 2020 · 09:30 pm
‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)

Shashi Deshpande
· Dec 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Watch: Funny video recreates ‘vague dystopian young adult novel’

Scroll Staff
· Oct 18, 2020 · 10:50 am
What we talk about when we talk about writing a novel during the pandemic

Sayantan Ghosh
· Jun 20, 2020 · 08:30 am
‘I was unconsciously recording the seething intolerance and incipient rise of saffron in Bengal’

Shireen Quadri
· Apr 26, 2020 · 08:30 am
Ten and a half commandments for new writers (that go beyond the clichés)

Sean Williams, The Conversation
· Feb 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm
It’s not just social media – spoilers have been making people angry since Victorian times

James Green, The Conversation
· May 03, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Why is there so little time travel in Indian fiction writing in English?

Tashan Mehta
· Mar 02, 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
A reader’s guide to the fiction and translations shortlists of the Crossword Book Jury Awards

Urvashi Bahuguna
· Nov 04, 2018 · 08:30 am
The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist: This is why each of the five novels deserves to win

Harsimran Gill
· Oct 03, 2018 · 06:30 pm
Twinkle Khanna on writing her first novel: ‘It is the story that tells you what form it needs’

Soumya Rao
· Sep 10, 2018 · 08:30 am
Sorry, Will Self, your report on the death of the novel is (still) premature

Katy Shaw, The Conversation
· Apr 02, 2018 · 08:30 am
You’re prepared for the agonising writing of your first book, but nobody warns you about the second

Tashan Mehta
· Feb 10, 2018 · 12:30 pm
One of India’s earliest crime fiction stories was about a delicious scam involving books

Abhijit Gupta
· Jan 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm