In his new book, academic Pramod K Nayar examines the ways literature is the ‘eyewitness’ of history

Pramod K Nayar

· Dec 16, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Amitava Kumar on why he used a dying man’s SOS tweet during Covid as a narrative device in his novel

Amitava Kumar

· Dec 05, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Leaf, Water, and Flow’: An ingeniously structured novel that questions how we read and write

Adit Shankar

· Oct 19, 2024 · 03:30 pm

Tabish Khair: On writing with the weight of the world

Tabish Khair

· Oct 16, 2024 · 08:30 pm

For Ruskin Bond, a busy railway station has often been the best place to find – and write – a story

Ruskin Bond

· May 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm

A new book suggests two ways in which writers can make their work ‘relevant’ for busy readers

Todd Rogers Jessica Lasky-Fink

· Mar 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘The day I officially became a storyteller’: Novelist Iffat Nawaz’s (very) personal essay on writing

Iffat Nawaz

· Jan 20, 2024 · 08:30 am

Why do writers go away to write? A founder of a writing retreat offers insights

Faiza Sultan Khan

· Aug 06, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Authors are resisting AI. But they have an advantage: we read to form relationships with writers

Millicent Weber, The Conversation

· Aug 05, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Lamenting the lost art of letter-writing: A radical art form showing ‘the full catastrophe of life’

Edwina Preston, The Conversation

· Mar 26, 2023 · 05:30 pm

What author John Hughes’s prolific plagiarism tells us about originality in writing

Dan Dixon, The Conversation

· Mar 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

ChatGPT: Humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

Louise Pryke, The Conversation

· Feb 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Did the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, actually write the novels that credit them as co-authors?

James O'Sullivan, The Conversation

· Jan 22, 2023 · 05:30 pm

From the memoir: Writer Pragya Bhagat on how uncertainties and contradictions have shaped her life

Pragya Bhagat

· Nov 17, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Did you know that writer’s block has a 5,000-year history?

Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation

· Oct 13, 2022 · 05:30 pm

How historical fiction writers have merged human experiences with factual accuracy

Liam Bell, The Conversation

· Jul 06, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘This dry tongue and this brave heart’: A new collection of writings by women young and old

Saba Mahmood Bashir

· Mar 20, 2022 · 08:30 am

Decolonising creative writing: It’s about not conforming to techniques of the western canon

Janice Pariat

· Jul 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The true story of how my mobile phone turned my novel into a love story in prose poetry

Gayathri Prabhu

· Feb 13, 2021 · 12:30 pm

A writer’s pain: My grandmother helped me through grief. The pandemic may not let me see her again

Naheed Patel

· Jan 17, 2021 · 08:30 am