How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?

Hattie Adam-Smith

· Nov 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom

Rohan Parikh

· Jul 03, 2019 · 07:00 pm

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

Made to last: How the world’s greatest works of literature find a place in the Penguin Classics list

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Dec 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

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

M Saad

· Aug 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ at 80: Why we will always return to Manderley

Laura Varnam, The Conversation

· Mar 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature

Ulka Anjaria

· Mar 03, 2018 · 10:30 am

Turning 200: The ‘Scottish Jane Austen’ was much more satirical about marriage than the real one

Susan Ferrier

· Jan 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm

It took a translation to hear the stories of this Greek epic the way a woman would have told them

Veena Muthuraman

· Dec 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

A new Mark Twain book is out, 107 years after his death. But who wrote it?

Vishwadha Chander

· Dec 17, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Jane Austen’s greatest novel is 200 years old. No, it’s not ‘Pride and Prejudice’

Robert Morrison, The Conversation

· Dec 07, 2017 · 05:30 pm

The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists

Amrita Narayanan

· Sep 02, 2017 · 06:30 pm

What Alexandre Dumas can teach us (seven times over) about being a bestselling author

Jash Sen

· Jul 24, 2017 · 08:30 am

How do you translate classic literature for contemporary readers?

Parvathy Raveendran

· Jun 25, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Five pre-modern Hindi classics that poet Anamika wants you to read

Devapriya Roy

· Apr 01, 2017 · 07:30 am

The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise

Ananya Vajpeyi

· Feb 20, 2017 · 08:30 am