Books and Literature

Two poets write about the season of disquietSubscriber Only

Two writers speak of returning to life once the pandemic is behind usSubscriber Only

Historian Peter Frankopan on why this pandemic reveals a dangerous lack of global cooperationSubscriber Only

Bill Clinton collaborates with James Patterson for a crime novel

Shortlist for The Encore Award announced; see list

I did something stupid: Neil Gaiman apologises for breaking lockdown rules

The Hunger Games prequel is out in India

Ruskin Bond’s birthday: An extract from his short story, The Woman on Platform No 8

Ebooks emerge as unlikely saviour for publishing houses amid lockdownSubscriber Only

It’s like living in a zoo, confined to your cage: Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown on lockdownSubscriber Only

Home is where the work is: Writers and their workstationsSubscriber Only

After TV adaptation, Sally Rooney’s Normal People tops UK book charts

Home is where the work is: Writers and their workspacesSubscriber Only

Stanley Johnson’s out-of-print novel on a lethal virus to be republished

Japanese author Murakami to DJ ‘Stay Home’ radio special as virus shutdown continues

Lockdown reading: Saikat Majumdar shares the books he is readingSubscriber Only

‘Nikah halala distorted into a game of lust’: A new book looks at a marriage that isn’tSubscriber Only

Neil Gaiman is not reading up on how to split from someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Lockdown verse: Jayshree Misra Tripathi and Priya Sarukkai Chabria share their poemsSubscriber Only

Madhav Khosla’s book on the Constitution engages with it as a pedagogical apparatusSubscriber Only

S Giridhar’s new book tells how government-school teachers prepare disadvantaged children to face the worldSubscriber Only

From Renaissance Italy to now, how epidemics have shaped conversations around the poor and public healthSubscriber Only

Home is where the work is: Writers and their workspacesSubscriber Only

Here are some independent bookshops which are deliveringSubscriber Only