A new book about four authors shows how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

‘Writing Ocean Worlds’ explores a different kind of world of the novel.

Charne Lavery, The Conversation

· Jun 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

Abortion in fiction draws on the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights

To abort becomes entangled with our perceptions of how we shape the future.

Sharon Engbrecht, The Conversation

· Jun 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Ways of Seeing’ at 50: A book that adeptly reassesses the narratives behind Western European art

John Berger examines the tradition that panders to male voyeurism by depicting naked women as passive objects of desire.

Joanna Mendelssohn, The Conversation

· Jun 13, 2022 · 08:30 am

Best sports books: Andre Agassi’s ‘Open’ – a refreshingly candid read about life of a top athlete

The American’s autobiography gives a no-holes-barred account of his childhood, relationships, tryst with drugs, and more.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 20, 2020 · 09:21 pm

Best sports books – David Halberstam’s ‘Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made’

The Washington Post called it ‘the best Jordan book so far’ when it was first published in 1999 and as you read it, you understand why.

Scroll Staff

· May 17, 2020 · 04:00 pm

Best sports books: Peter Roebuck’s ‘It takes all sorts’ is a collection for cricket nostalgics

If you’re missing cricket, want to know more about some iconic or obscure players or even just want a throwback to newspaper days, this is a book for you.

Scroll Staff

· May 10, 2020 · 06:00 pm

Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie’s books among BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

The list also included RK Narayan, Vikram Seth and VS Naipaul.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 06, 2019 · 09:31 pm

Best of 2018: Books about the life of a writer

4 of the best books published this year to help understand the mind of a writer.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:27 pm

Manto Saheb: Friends and Enemies of the Great Maverick

A collection of personal writings by those who knew, loved, respected or even hated the legendary writer.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:23 pm

Feel Free

The prolific author’s second collection of essays shows the vastness of her range and the depth of her insight.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:23 pm

How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

A moving and deeply personal collection of essays that interrogate what it means to be a writer, among many other identities, in the world.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:22 pm

Best of 2018: Non-fiction books to understand India and the world

From a work of reportage on the aspirations of young Indians to a deeply-researched history of desire in the country, these books shed new light on the world.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:21 pm