Premchand portrayed humans with great sensitivity, but he was just as good writing about animals

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· Apr 28, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Dream of the Red Chamber’: Why you should read a 2,500-page-long, 18th century Chinese novel

Josh Stenberg, The Conversation

· Apr 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Remembering the writer who redefined Madurai: Arshia, aka Syed Hussain Basha ( 1959-2018)

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Apr 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

With ‘The Only Story’, Julian Barnes is back to writing of love, but not of romance or happiness

Arunima Mazumdar

· Apr 07, 2018 · 07:15 am

Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ isn’t just a poem about man and god. It was the first ‘scientific epic’

Ed Simon Ed Simon, Aeon

· Apr 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Want to read world literature? Try the 13 books on the Man Booker International Prize longlist

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 31, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Against storytelling: This essay might destroy all your ideas about the value of the story in a book

Nayani Goyal

· Mar 31, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How do you keep a non-profit literary magazine going for eight years? Ask the co-founders of ‘Spark’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

What literature and language tell us about the history of loneliness

Amelia S. Worsley, The Conversation

· Mar 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

You’ve got mail: Two Indian women are putting literature and letter-writing into a nostalgic package

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Mar 24, 2018 · 11:30 am

‘Flying Mountain’: The first novel in verse to be longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize

Christoph Ransmayr

· Mar 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

In Pakistan, English fiction is gathering pace in its search for approval and recognition

Maniza Naqvi

· Mar 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Want to read novels by women? Start with the 16 novels longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘My work on language and power was an elaboration of a Tagorean sentiment’: Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Devapriya Roy

· Mar 11, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Rana Dasgupta on why the newest and richest literary award for Indian fiction will be a gamechanger

Poonam Ganglani

· Mar 06, 2018 · 08:30 am

Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature

Ulka Anjaria

· Mar 03, 2018 · 10:30 am

‘A Laughing Girl on the Back Seat of a Scooter’: A vintage story by a Pakistani writer

Mustansar Hussain Tarar

· Mar 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How a linguistics teacher created an entire anarchist language inspired by Ursula K le Guin

Martin Edwardes, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Ngugi wa Thiong’o urges intellectuals to rally against the ‘destroyers’ of the world

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

· Feb 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why the ‘Fifty Shades’ books have a lot in common with a story from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’

Marta Cobb, The Conversation

· Feb 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm