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A Mumbai mother’s solution to kids’ screen time: An app-based book rental service

The silent revolution: Why today’s children’s books aren’t what you remember

Who was Daniel Woodrell? The ‘Winter’s Bone’ author who pioneered Ozarks noir

Enshittification: Why your favourite apps feel worse every year

‘My body became so sick’: Rupi Kaur reveals the physical toll of viral fame to Rick Rubin

The dream of Darjeeling: How Tom Stoppard’s childhood in India forged the playwright

Human algorithm: OTP Please! reveals hidden emotions of our gig economy

Little Men: Louisa May Alcott shows why compassion towards boys matters

The Chabimaster: A spy thriller on the locks we carry within our soul

The lost originals, the found memories: An ode to Amar Chitra Katha

What art means: 4 books that will change the way you look at it

Reading Vinod Kumar Shukla: For the quiet that stays after the last page

Discipline takes work — Ryan Holiday makes a case for why it’s worth it

The Great Sanctions Hack: Why economic sanctions don’t work the way we expect

‘Midnight’s Children kicked open the door’: Salman Rushdie on Indian writers in English finding their voiceSubscriber Only

‘They Will Shoot You, Madam’: Insights into insurgencies affecting IndiaSubscriber Only

In The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie asks: What remains when words fail?Subscriber Only

Love in the age of swipe-right: What bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’ teaches us about modern dating

Putting the Toilet Seat Down: When feminism becomes an everyday act

Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards

David Szalay’s Flesh is crisp, moving, experimental — and not a manosphere manifesto

The Whistle Blower’s Wife: When a system silences the truth teller

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