books
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Children’s Day reading list: 17 books for readers from the very young to those coming of age
Sayari Debnath
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Watch: Shah Rukh Khan makes an appearance at the Sharjah International Book Fair
Scroll Staff
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Mathematical genius Srinivas Ramanujan’s childhood is vividly re-imagined in this book for children
Arundhati Venkatesh
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A new graphic novel offers a deep dive into the Indus Valley Civilisation that children will enjoy
Rati Girish
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Watch: German Book Prize winner shaves their head on stage in solidarity with protesting Iranian wom
Scroll Staff
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‘One of the most profound joys in the world’: Singer Dua Lipa delivers Booker Prize keynote speech
Scroll Staff
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Who were the people of the Indus and what happened to them? A children’s graphic novel seeks answers
Nikhil Gulati Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
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‘Dancing backwards and in heels’: The delicate art of translating children’s literature
Mini Shrinivasan
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Kamaladevi Chattopdhayay NIF Book Prize longlist presents 10 important works about today’s India
Scroll Staff
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‘Blackly comic, really artful’: What Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) told BBC about her favourite novel
Scroll Staff
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Life, death, intimacy and privilege: Four works of Covid-19 fiction – and what they say about us
Deborah Lupton, The Conversation
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100 years after Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’, its philosophical dilemmas continue to move readers
Catherine Legg, The Conversation
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How historical fiction writers have merged human experiences with factual accuracy
Liam Bell, The Conversation
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‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history
Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation
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‘Homesickness’: This book by an Australian author maps trauma in bold new ways
Marina Deller, The Conversation
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A new book about four authors shows how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world
Charne Lavery, The Conversation
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The rise, fall and resurrection of horror fiction in American popular entertainment
Ali Alizadeh, The Conversation
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Abortion in fiction draws on the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights
Sharon Engbrecht, The Conversation
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‘We won the lottery’: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic perspective on life and death
Scroll Staff
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The ‘Dracula Daily’ newsletter brings weekly comical twists to the 1897 vampire novel
Stanley Stepanic, The Conversation