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Kiran Desai returns with a new novel: ‘I wanted loneliness to flow’Subscriber Only
September 21, 2025 05:30 IST
Kiran Desai's 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' explores exile and intimacy. In an interview with the Indian Express she describes loneliness as a force that flows.
Sun, Sep 21, 2025
‘Once you’ve had a rocky and unsafe childhood, you can’t trust safety’: Arundhati RoySubscriber Only
August 30, 2025 10:47 IST
The Booker Prize-winning author on writing her mother, Mary Roy, into literature, life on the margins, and discovering in the personal, the grammar of power, hierarchy and violence in the world
Sat, Sep 13, 2025
Where Netflix’s new ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ adaptation fits in rise of ‘cosy crime’ mediaSubscriber Only
August 28, 2025 06:57 IST
Whether it’s 'Only Murders in the Building' or Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in the 'Knives Out' universe, cosy crime — long considered the gentle cousin of the noir-soaked thriller — is having a moment.
Thu, Aug 28, 2025
‘We are being lied to… responding to request to hate each other’: Arundhati RoySubscriber Only
August 28, 2025 04:03 IST
Roy’s account unsettles the familiar myth of motherhood and replaces it with something knottier, more alive: a portrait of inheritance that is equal parts brilliance and bruise, an upbringing that was as creative and dazzling as it was difficult and scarring.
Fri, Aug 29, 2025
From the Opinions Editor: India’s anti-immigrant drive and the issue of Bengali migrantsSubscriber Only
August 03, 2025 15:42 IST
The rhetoric of "infiltrators" and "outsiders" in a politics of exclusion may reap electoral dividends in the short term. But in the long run, it foments division and distrust
Thu, Aug 07, 2025
Why is Russia afraid of crime fiction novelist Boris Akunin?Subscriber Only
July 16, 2025 14:17 IST
The creator of detective Erast Fandorin faces a 14-year sentence in absentia for his outspoken criticism of Russia's war and Putin’s leadership
Wed, Jul 16, 2025
From the Opinions Editor: The tragic death of Shefali Jariwala and the anti-ageing trapSubscriber Only
July 06, 2025 18:26 IST
The cult of youth isn't new, but its industrialisation is. And so, midlife becomes the age of erasure for women — unless they buy into the temptation of wellness and aesthetics
Tue, Jul 08, 2025
Here’s to Mahua Moitra and other difficult women— may they remain fierce, unfiltered, in charge of their storiesSubscriber Only
June 10, 2025 15:48 IST
In sharing photos of her private wedding celebration on social media, Moitra sent out the message that she will not edit herself to fit into anyone else’s frame
Thu, Jun 12, 2025
International Booker Prize 2025: ‘I call myself a writer-translator with a hyphen in between’, says Deepa BhasthiSubscriber Only
June 01, 2025 15:04 IST
The translator of the Kannada short fiction collection Heart Lamp on why the act of writing and translating is always hyphenated, the criticism that the book has faced and why translating a work by a woman is very different to that by a man
Wed, Jun 18, 2025
International Booker Prize 2025: How Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp insists on dignity, witness and repairSubscriber Only
June 01, 2025 14:59 IST
The short fiction collection is not a seductive read in the traditional sense. It doesn’t dazzle with plot twists or offer the slow burn of psychological complexity. Instead, it demands something more uncomfortable from the reader: to sit with pain, to listen to voices that have long been smothered, and to recognise that certain stories aren’t told to entertain; they are articulated to hold space for grief, for defiance, for survival
Wed, Jun 18, 2025
What writers think of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, a century laterSubscriber Only
May 18, 2025 15:13 IST
A century after the publication of Mrs Dalloway, writers, poets and academics speak of its quiet, radical power, and how it touched their lives.
Sun, May 18, 2025
Remembering author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate and stalwart of Latin American BoomSubscriber Only
April 15, 2025 14:33 IST
A liberal who revered order, a novelist devoted to realism, a critic of radicalism who once flirted with revolution, Vargas Llosa was, in many ways, an anachronism. However, his contradictions did not diminish his influence.
Tue, Apr 15, 2025
Watching ‘Adolescence’ as a parent: We don’t know what we are up againstSubscriber Only
March 28, 2025 07:05 IST
Adolescence is difficult, navigating it as a parent has no map in the digital age. Love, though, may still be the answer
Fri, Mar 28, 2025
‘With Love, Meghan’ is a tone-deaf fantasy of domestic blissSubscriber Only
March 11, 2025 12:51 IST
Not all of us can emulate Meghan Merkle's lifestyle. We have to squeeze in the“present-parent” vibe in between work and getting the children to school, and maybe — just maybe — catching an episode of her show
Tue, Mar 11, 2025
The World With Its Mouth Open is a remarkable meditation on survival and connection in a fractious worldSubscriber Only
March 09, 2025 05:30 IST
Zahid Rafiq chooses his words with care and plays around with structure, language, memory and identity in ways that mirror the disjointed and interrupted nature of life in Kashmir
Sat, Mar 08, 2025
Between Kolkata and Delhi, looking for homeSubscriber Only
February 28, 2025 12:09 IST
Once, the disorderly sprawl of the city had felt constraining for young ambitions. Now, Kolkata is a city plush with a wistfulness for lost selves. Delhi, on the other hand, makes an adult of you overnight.
Fri, Feb 28, 2025
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, do we really need more masculine energy?Subscriber Only
January 20, 2025 12:45 IST
His lament on the loss of macho energy in corporate culture, in a podcast with Joe Rogan, casts the oligarch as a responsibility-shrugging man-child. It's a masculinity that tries to pass of moral failure as moral high ground and opportunism as strategic foresight
Mon, Jan 20, 2025
The first Miss Merkel Mystery gives a post-retirement makeover to former German Chancellor Angela MerkelSubscriber Only
January 19, 2025 14:41 IST
Whiling away her time with nothing more consuming than baking, and choosing which colour of blazer to sport, Merkel’s life takes an exciting turn when she chances upon the murder of local aristocrat Baron von Baugenwitz.
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
Allegations against Neil Gaiman: Fact, fiction and the writerSubscriber Only
January 15, 2025 07:07 IST
When harsh truths about a beloved writer are uncovered, the betrayal goes deep
Tue, Jan 14, 2025
Best of 2024: Crime fiction and thrillersSubscriber Only
December 31, 2024 19:15 IST
Our pick of the year's best crime novels
Tue, Dec 31, 2024
‘The more society becomes secular, the more we lose our disposition to keep questioning things’: Samantha HarveySubscriber Only
December 16, 2024 07:16 IST
Booker Prize 2024 winner on faith, philosophy and the importance of tuning out noise in a hyper-connected world, and why she wanted to stay away from the overtly political in her novel Orbital
Mon, Dec 16, 2024
Lost in the noise: Why my Spotify Wrapped is an AI-powered disappointmentSubscriber Only
December 12, 2024 14:32 IST
It might be too big an ask of a corporation intent on maximising profit to be a record keeper of our inner lives, but perhaps, it could be a more faithful custodian of the background score to our fleeting days so we have an inkling of who we were and who we have become
Sat, Dec 14, 2024
Not just Australia — as a parent, I think other countries too should ban social media for kids under 16Subscriber Only
November 11, 2024 12:23 IST
For most millennial parents, there is little or no precedence on how they can guide their children through this problem, given their own digital gap and the impracticality of keeping a surveillance on children’s online lives. They could do with all the help possible
Mon, Nov 11, 2024
Anita Desai on new novella Rosarita, her changing relationship with India and why families never cease to surpriseSubscriber Only
October 13, 2024 06:39 IST
In the sparsely-written work, Desai explores the unknown layers to individual lives that get subsumed in the quiet violence of the everyday
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
Sonali Prasad’s debut novel Glass Bottom sacrifices story for styleSubscriber Only
September 29, 2024 05:30 IST
In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.
Sat, Sep 28, 2024
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