Books and Literature

3 books to read as India celebrates its first Women’s Cricket World Cup win

Skip the fiction aisle: Why self help is a smarter read for personal growthSubscriber Only

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‘Broken Promises’: Bihar’s biggest hurdle isn’t change, but acceptanceSubscriber Only

Hercule Poirot: A New Year’s Eve murder in ‘The Last Death of the Year’Subscriber Only

Every Halloween, we return to Godric’s Hollow: Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived was also the boy who lostSubscriber Only

India has advantage as a mediator, could play a big role: Former German ambassador weighs inSubscriber Only

The monster within: Reconsidering Frankenstein on HalloweenSubscriber Only

Climate justice lets super rich in developing world off the hook: Prize-winning historian Sunil AmrithSubscriber Only

Unseen: The untold story of Zomato — when hunger found its mapSubscriber Only

5 biographies I want to read before the end of 2025Subscriber Only

From Dracula to Twilight: Why vampires haunt our imaginationSubscriber Only

Do self-help books really change our lives? One reader isn’t so sureSubscriber Only

‘I am banned’: Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka says US revoked visa after he criticised Donald TrumpSubscriber Only

Where to begin with Zadie Smith — from White Teeth to Dead and AliveSubscriber Only

Lily Allen’s West End Girl and the new confessional feminismSubscriber Only

The digital Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath and the culture of confessionSubscriber Only

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‘If Anyone Builds It…: Why superintelligent AI could be humanity’s undoingSubscriber Only

Richard Osman’s ‘The Impossible Fortune’ is less mystery, more a meditation on loss and ageing — and that’s what makes it so goodSubscriber Only

Chetan Bhagat’s 12 Years review: Tone-deaf take on love and age-gap relationshipsSubscriber Only

Peacemaker: The forgotten U Thant gave the UN its moral voice, writes Pratap Bhanu MehtaSubscriber Only

Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us – Manu Joseph’s darkly witty autopsy of India’s uneasy peace amid inequalitySubscriber Only

A Booker for children: New prize hopes to rekindle young readers’ love of booksSubscriber Only