Meet Colette: writer, feminist, performer, and gender-fluid #MeToo trailblazer

Diana Holmes, The Conversation

· Jan 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

An epic work of Hindi fiction is finding its way to more readers through translation

Upendranath Ashk

· Jan 24, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel proves that fiction offers many sides to a story when history provides a single version

Ibtisam Ahmed

· Jan 19, 2019 · 08:30 am

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

In ‘Conversations’, Jorge Luis Borges revealed the dreams, mirrors and labyrinths of his art

Devdan Chaudhuri

· Jan 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Life is non-literary, unstructured. We try to give our own structure to it’: Writer Jayant Kaikini

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

How the ghazal traveled from 6th-century Arabia to Persia, India and the English-speaking world

Anisur Rahman

· Jan 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

Photos from ‘Schippeitaro’, a Japanese fairy tale about sinister dancing cats and a heroic dog

Yasuyo Ohtsuka

· Jan 03, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Charles Dickens popularised the traditional Christmas meal but what did people feast on before that?

Joan Fitzpatrick, The Conversation

· Dec 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How to understand apocalyptic events through literature (and a handy reading list)

Sheheryar Badar Sheikh, The Conversation

· Dec 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Jeanne Britton, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What makes Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ an enduring favourite over nearly 100 years?

Antonia Pont, The Conversation

· Dec 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A Malayalam novel and a Telugu play went deep into South India’s caste question in the 19th century

Rajmohan Gandhi

· Dec 10, 2018 · 08:30 am

Why do so few Indian authors write novels about terrorism, asks a writer

Sirsho Bandopadhyay

· Dec 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This Bengali radio show’s storytelling skills could put even Netflix in the shade

Preetha Banerjee

· Dec 05, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Did Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking ‘Things Fall Apart’ subvert colonial structures – or uphold them?

Sarah Jilani, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How the popularity of veganism might change the language used in fiction

Shareena Z Hamzah, The Conversation

· Nov 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

#MeToo: How can literature (and publishers) respond to the problems of gender and power?

Jenny Bhatt

· Nov 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How ‘Little Women’ was shaped by the stifling principles of Louisa May Alcott’s father

Ryna Ordynat, The Conversation

· Nov 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm