Walter Scott at 250: So much more than a great historical novelist

Fortunately for the casual reader, Walter Scott, born in 1771, was more than a novelist. He was also a master of the short story.

Daniel Cook, The Conversation

· Jun 24, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Tagore at 160: ‘People are urged to deeds of frightfulness by the goadings of manufactured panics’

‘The Spirit of Freedom’: A letter from New York to the author’s own countrymen. May 9, 2021 marks Rabindranath Tagore’s 160th birth anniversary.

Rabindranath Tagore

· May 09, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Nawal El Saadawi’s intellectual life reflected eight decades of Arab society and culture

The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.

Amal Amireh, The Conversation

· Apr 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How music shaped Virginia Woolf’s writing

Music provided the author with a vocabulary to imagine and describe her creative practice and formal innovations.

Emma Sutton, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Virginia Woolf died 80 years ago. What does reading her work in the midst of a pandemic bring us?

The author rewrote death and illness back into the national story of post-first world war Britain.

Jess Cotton, The Conversation

· Mar 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm

From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship

Maria Aurora Couto writes of her long association with the famous novelist.

Maria Aurora Couto

· Mar 07, 2021 · 08:30 am

How a maligned Virginia Woolf points to the problem of generic introductions to the classics

Things become tricky when misperceptions turn up in affordable paperback series by leading international publishers.

Gayathri Prabhu

· Feb 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How Ernest Hemingway dealt with the Spanish flu pandemic: He was not a denier, he was scarred by it

The author dodged the peaks of the 1918-'19 pandemic waves by weeks, sometimes days, in Italy.

Eamonn O'Neill, The Conversation

· Dec 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A literary gangster who protested through obscenity: the salaciousness of Henry Miller

Born on December 26, 1891, Miller survived controversies and censure to have his reputation restored.

M Saad

· Dec 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817.

Shashi Deshpande

· Dec 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’

The fifth in a series of essays by Premchand to mark the 140th year of his birth, translated from the Hindi by Pavitra Mohan.

Premchand

· Dec 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why Premchand wanted a new ideal of education that would go against traditional social arrangements

The fourth in a series of essays by Premchand to mark the 140th year of his birth, translated from the Hindi by Pavitra Mohan.

Premchand

· Oct 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm