literature
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Can the 2020 Booker Prize break the systemic imbalances and inequalities of the publishing system?
Stevie Marsden, The Conversation
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A reader’s quick guide to all 13 novels on the Booker Prize 2020 longlist
Suhasini Patni
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What queer themes are India’s writers building their books on during the pandemic?
Chintan Girish Modi
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The story of star-crossed lovers Suthon and Manora lives on in Thailand’s dance and drama
Jana Igunma
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This remarkable prizewinning novel has three narrators: A young woman, her dead grandfather, history
Jen Webb, The Conversation
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Want to read about queer teens saving the world or having a rom-com moment? Here are five books
Alex Henderson, The Conversation
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If censorship were to return, could today’s writers learn from their Victorian counterparts?
Stephanie Meek, The Conversation
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What do we learn about the plague pandemic from the three medieval classics of literature?
Sajni Mukherji
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Searching for great novels from Australia? Try the Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist
Jen Webb, The Conversation
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How the pandemic is depriving lovers of Urdu literature of their environment for enjoyment
Mahtab Alam
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First person: How Navayana, publisher of anti-caste literature, was born, and where it is going now
S Anand
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Why writers and publishers must tell the stories of the pandemic in a new way, with empathy
Aditya Sudarshan
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‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu
Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com
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The absurdity of literary festivals (in the third world) in time of the pandemic and after
Ahsan Akbar
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A pandemic wipes out most of the male population in a recent novel from South Africa
Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) immortalised the Civil War, Spain’s favourite modern Gothic tale
Xavier Aldana Reyes, The Conversation
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Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia
Saikat Majumdar
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Father’s Day: What Ernest Hemingway felt about fatherhood, in his fiction and in his life
Verna Kale, The Conversation
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While the pandemic forces publishers to slow down, this literary journal is relaunching itself
Kanishka Gupta
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Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time
Olivia Majumdar