What can literature tell us about the post-coronavirus world that lies beyond the dark mountains?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Apr 11, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Unmade in India: Five homegrown dystopian books that have been where we hope not to go

Annika Taneja

· Apr 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Five detective novels you can read to beat the boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown

James Peacock, The Conversation

· Apr 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Lockdown reading: If you’re looking for escape, here are five Victorian novels to transport you

Pam Lock, The Conversation

· Apr 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A brief literary companion to solitude in modern classics for the self-isolated reader

Sayandeb Chowdhury

· Apr 05, 2020 · 08:30 am

Who says you don’t have to go to school just because you’re dead? Not in this novel

Anita Roy

· Apr 03, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America

Jason Miller, The Conversation

· Mar 30, 2020 · 03:30 pm

What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response

Rohan Parikh

· Mar 28, 2020 · 07:30 am

Mirza Waheed wins the Hindu Prize 2019 for fiction, Santanu Das for non-fiction

Mirza Waheed Santanu Das

· Mar 27, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘The Masque of the Red Death’: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 19th-century tale

Edgar Allan Poe

· Mar 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The Play Of Dolls’: Kunwar Narain’s early short fiction also shows why he was a legendary poet

Kunwar Narain

· Mar 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Jaipur Journals’ is set in a literature festival to explore the writing life in all its complexity

Pragya Tiwari

· Mar 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

This survey of Indian literatures seeks a mode of reflective and long-term response to suffering

Nikhil R

· Mar 08, 2020 · 11:30 am

This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Mar 01, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Is science fiction an instrument of escapism or a mirror to our realities?

Gavin Miller, The Conversation

· Feb 25, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why read translations? Or, why there is no borderless literature and why that is not bad at all

Berthold Franke

· Feb 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

Boyhood, friendship and the precarious state of democracy make the novel that is ‘The Cliffhangers’

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Feb 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it

Vishes Kothari

· Feb 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How post-World World War II America fell in love with romance comics

Michael C Weisenburg, The Conversation

· Feb 18, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis

David Higgins, The Conversation Tess Somervell, The Conversation

· Feb 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm