Books and Literature

Why Mahasweta Devi still matters: 6 books to read on her 100th birth anniversary

I never got critical validation, you need to write a certain kind of book for it: Durjoy Datta

Nanha Rajkumar: The Little Prince gets an Indian heart

Monroe Doctrine was not about American dominance: Anne Applebaum on Trump and Venezuela

The 2025 book on oligarchy that may explain 2026

How Progress Ends is a journey through tech innovation down the ages

Banaras Lit Fest names longlist for its 2026 book awards

5 essential reads by Madhav Gadgil, the ‘people’s scientist’ who charted India’s ecological conscience

Do ‘Sewa’ and forget you did it: The anti-self-help book for a kinder world

Armed with books: World Book Fair mixes military tribute with literary diplomacy

The faithful infidelity of Bela Tarr: What the Hungarian filmmaker taught us about literary adaptationSubscriber Only

‘Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai?’: Piyush Mishra’s memoir dismantles his own myth

20 years of Twilight: Why we love to hate Stephenie Meyer’s brand of cringy affectionSubscriber Only

Seeing Differently: Amitav Ghosh on his new book Ghost Eye

How John Carr’s ‘The Hollow Man’ built the perfect crime for ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

Oil, coups, and coercion: A reading list on the US playbook in Latin America

Why most New Year intentions fail – and what actually works instead

The Odyssey: What to read before Christopher Nolan’s film hits the big screen

The modern Sisyphus: Breathing smog and pushing boulders

Why Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian’s ‘A Sixth of Humanity’ presents a flawed narrative of India’s developmentSubscriber Only

How Krupa Ge’s Burns Boy explores family, gender and invisible scarsSubscriber Only

Chasing (a) Conjecture: Chandrashekhar Khare on proof, persistence, and poetry of mathematics

In Sharankumar Limbale’s ‘Sanatan’, Caste is the only ‘eternal’ truth

Resolved, again: On Dickens, Woolf, and the New Year resolution to do better