Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel

Jenny Bhatt

· Aug 26, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A Japanese novel about an unambitious store clerk who refuses to change is earning praise. Why?

Rashmi Patel

· Aug 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Over 150 years later, Maupassant’s fiction is remembered for the questions it asked of morality

M Saad

· Aug 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness

Oindrila Mukherjee

· Aug 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Graphic novels are novels’: Why the Booker Prize judges were right to choose one for its longlist

Claire Nally, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why I liked Emily Brontë’s distance from India (and why she might have an Indian connection)

Girish Shahane

· Aug 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works, now translated into English

Soni Wadhwa

· Aug 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Why should I carry filth on my head?’: Dalit writer Baburao Bagul’s fiction was a cry of protest

Baburao Bagul

· Aug 01, 2018 · 08:30 am

Michael Ondaatje’s win of the Golden Man Booker highlights many of the problems of the prize

Jody Mason, The Conversation Dessa Bayrock, The Conversation

· Jul 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A modern, abridged retelling of ‘Saraswatichandra’ offers a debatable way to read a classic

Rita Kothari

· Jul 28, 2018 · 07:00 am

Missing the World Cup? Here’s what some of the world’s finest authors wrote about football

Somak Mukherjee

· Jul 21, 2018 · 06:30 pm

William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills

Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2018 · 06:30 pm

An alternative literary prize aims to be what the Nobel Prize hasn’t been – inclusive and democratic

Sana Goyal

· Jul 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Half The Night is Gone’: This unmistakably great novel stops short with its political provocations

Supriya Nair

· Jul 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

How do young children read about the death of someone they love? This book shows the way

Shikhandin

· Jun 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A meditation: Han Kang’s ‘White Book’ truly deserves a description that is overused for fiction now

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Eight bedtime stories to read to children of all ages (but they’re all from the West)

Raluca Radulescu, The Conversation Lisa Blower, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is the modern world too close for comfort to write about? Two recent books show how it is being done

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 07:15 am

Before (and after) García Márquez and Vargas Llosa: Five Latin authors you should be reading now

Laura Lomas, The Conversation

· Jun 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Like its subject, Yoko Tawada’s ‘The Emissary’ is hallucinatory and contaminated

Brian Haman

· Jun 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm