A reader’s quick guide to all 13 novels on the Booker Prize 2020 longlist

Suhasini Patni

· Aug 02, 2020 · 12:30 pm

What queer themes are India’s writers building their books on during the pandemic?

Chintan Girish Modi

· Jul 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

The story of star-crossed lovers Suthon and Manora lives on in Thailand’s dance and drama

Jana Igunma

· Jul 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

This remarkable prizewinning novel has three narrators: A young woman, her dead grandfather, history

Jen Webb, The Conversation

· Jul 24, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Want to read about queer teens saving the world or having a rom-com moment? Here are five books

Alex Henderson, The Conversation

· Jul 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

If censorship were to return, could today’s writers learn from their Victorian counterparts?

Stephanie Meek, The Conversation

· Jul 22, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What do we learn about the plague pandemic from the three medieval classics of literature?

Sajni Mukherji

· Jul 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Searching for great novels from Australia? Try the Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist

Jen Webb, The Conversation

· Jul 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How the pandemic is depriving lovers of Urdu literature of their environment for enjoyment

Mahtab Alam

· Jul 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

First person: How Navayana, publisher of anti-caste literature, was born, and where it is going now

S Anand

· Jul 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why writers and publishers must tell the stories of the pandemic in a new way, with empathy

Aditya Sudarshan

· Jul 06, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

The absurdity of literary festivals (in the third world) in time of the pandemic and after

Ahsan Akbar

· Jun 24, 2020 · 07:30 am

A pandemic wipes out most of the male population in a recent novel from South Africa

Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation

· Jun 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) immortalised the Civil War, Spain’s favourite modern Gothic tale

Xavier Aldana Reyes, The Conversation

· Jun 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Father’s Day: What Ernest Hemingway felt about fatherhood, in his fiction and in his life

Verna Kale, The Conversation

· Jun 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm

While the pandemic forces publishers to slow down, this literary journal is relaunching itself

Kanishka Gupta

· Jun 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time

Olivia Majumdar

· Jun 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why fan fiction about Charles Dickens’ life is just as much a part of his literary legacy

Lucy Whitehead, The Conversation

· Jun 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm