literature
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What do ghosts in Bengal eat?
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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What did lift-the-flap books look like in the 18th century?
Maddy Smith
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Translated books take all five spots on the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature shortlist
Scroll Staff
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Milee Ashwarya is the new Publisher at Penguin Random House India, Meru Gokhale announces departure
Scroll Staff
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What readers can expect from Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning Sri Lankan political satire
Lucy Christopher, The Conversation
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Temsula Ao (1945-2022): The Naga writer’s literary legacy covers more than her stories and poems
Chitra Ahanthem
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2022 Booker Prize: Actors and musicians read excerpts from the six shortlisted books
Scroll Staff
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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Nobel Prize winner for Literature Annie Ernaux’s true art is the deconstruction of memory
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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Annie Ernaux: Opening lines from books by the 2022 Nobel Prize winner for literature
Annie Ernaux
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Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: A reader’s introduction to the six novels
Scroll Staff
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JCB Prize for Literature 2022: Six translations (two from Urdu) feature in the longlist of 10 novels
Scroll Staff
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Dalit Lekhak Sangh turns 25, shows how Dalit literature could be a radical preamble to a New India
Nikhil Pandhi
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How 19th-century American literature planted sensationalism in conversations about abortions
Margaret Jay Jessee, The Conversation
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What do William Shakespeare’s plays tell us about war?
Robert White, The Conversation
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Was writer F Scott Fitzgerald an early appropriator – of his wife Zelda’s story ideas?
Shashi Deshpande
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Watch: Author Zadie Smith sings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at a public reading of her novels
Scroll Staff
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Steampunk: How this subgenre of science fiction challenges the beliefs of civilisational progress
Sumit Bardhan
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How should Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy be read during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Ani Kokobobo, The Conversation
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What classic literature says about the challenges of refugees fleeing persecution
Robert F Barsky, The Conversation