Why France fell in love with an Indian female author after her death in 19th century

Blake Smith

· May 31, 2018 · 11:30 am

Why does Subramania Bharati mean so little to non-Tamil India?

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· May 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

Adieu, Philip Roth, you seeped through our skins (while we weren’t looking)

Sayantan Ghosh

· May 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

From Sidney Sheldon to online fan fiction, why erotica is so popular as a way to explore sexuality

Richa Kaul Padte

· May 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

The literary establishment may have detested him, but Tom Wolfe elevated journalism to literature

William McKeen, The Conversation

· May 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Balakumaran (1946-2018) struck a chord with readers because he gave a voice to ordinary individuals

N Kalyan Raman

· May 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The British royal wedding: Here’s what one of the world’s greatest novels teaches us about marriage

Richard Gunderman, The Conversation

· May 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

Current Affairs May 7th 2018

Scroll Staff

· May 07, 2018 · 01:27 pm

What makes a translation great? Ten literary translators from across the world weigh in

Katy Derbyshire

· Apr 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

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