literature
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Everyone not chased out of their homes must read Dina Nayeri’s searing book ‘The Ungrateful Refugee’
Rituparna Roy
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Those beautiful Soviet fairy-tale books many of us were enchanted by? They were meant for propaganda
Faisal Mahmud
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‘In another 30 years I will produce only four or five books’: 2018 JCB Prize winner Benyamin
Scroll Staff
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A case for memorising poetry in the age of search engines, social media and smartphones
Veronica Alfano, The Conversation
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Watch: Hilarious hacks on how to get longlisted for a literary prize in India
Scroll Staff
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Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road
Fatima Rizvi, Sahapedia
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Toni Morrison’s books were haunted by history – past-present, slavery-freedom all mixed up
Paul Giles, The Conversation
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Watch: Why Nobel laureate Toni Morrison said, ‘The function of freedom is to free someone else’
Scroll Staff
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Two hundred years later, Herman Melville’s books are talking eloquently to the modern world
Aaron Sachs, The Conversation
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Debate: Are India’s literary prizes wrong to focus more on the winning authors than on their books?
Scroll Staff
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No matter who bags the Booker Prize this year, women authors are the winners
Suhasini Patni
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Watch: What the 2019 Booker Prize judges have to say on the longlist (which features Salman Rushdie)
Scroll Staff
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The first woman on the moon reached there in the 17th century – through a smash hit play
Sara Read and Catie Gill, The Conversation
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South Asian science-fiction is finally centrestage, bringing us closer to our own reality
Nudrat Kamal, Dawn.com
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How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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A literary agent lists ten books from outside the subcontinental mainstream we should be reading
Amish Raj Mulmi
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Bret Easton Ellis goes from cool social challenger to grumpy Gen-Xer in eight essays in his new book
Matt Graham, The Conversation
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The post-human identity of Elena Ferrante: An author who is both there and isn’t
Enrica Maria Ferrara, The Conversation
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On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom
Rohan Parikh
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To admire Daphne du Maurier, the novel we must read is not ‘Rebecca’ but ‘My Cousin Rachel’
Radhika Oberoi