Books and Literature

Sunil Amrith wins the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for The Burning Earth. Who is he?Subscriber Only

Re-reading The Kite Runner: Empathy and redemption come all too easy as a winning formulaSubscriber Only

The dead keep publishing, and the living keep cashing inSubscriber Only

Who is Vajra Chandrasekera — winner of the 2025 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for FictionSubscriber Only

The other Harper Lee: New stories offer glimpse of ‘Mockingbird’ author in makingSubscriber Only

The Dead Fish: Rajkamal Choudhary and the rot beneath modern lifeSubscriber Only

Had Pablo Neruda walked through Madhubani, what ode would he have found?Subscriber Only

The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis: Why the idea of genius is broken — and what that means for usSubscriber Only

Kolkata on the brink and in the spotlight: Megha Majumdar’s new novel wins Oprah’s praiseSubscriber Only

Remembering Baek Sehee, who turned therapy and tteokbokki into a language of survivalSubscriber Only

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Virginia Woolf’s early fairy tales published after a centurySubscriber Only

When the kitchen became Kurukshetra: Cooking, consciousness, and the everyday GitaSubscriber Only

4 essential reads on GazaSubscriber Only

‘Adolescence’ started a conversation on masculinity. Actor Stephen Graham’s new book aims to continue it

Malala Yousafzai says smoking weed at Oxford triggered flashbacks of Taliban attack

Frederick Forsyth’s final salvo: Revenge of Odessa closes a legendary careerSubscriber Only

The secret power of a book cover: How the design drives reading and salesSubscriber Only

Rocket Dreams review: How billionaires Musk, Bezos aim to conquer spaceSubscriber Only

How to read László Krasznahorkai: A guide to the Hungarian ‘Master of the Apocalypse’Subscriber Only

‘The Johnson & Johnson Files’ review: The Indian Express journalist Kaunain Sheriff M exposes the global giant’s dark legacy in IndiaSubscriber Only

The Other Mohan review: Uncovering a life lost to EmpireSubscriber Only

‘Careless People’ review: Sarah Wynn-Williams exposes Big Tech’s moral voidSubscriber Only

Exiled from language: How Duleep Singh, the Last Maharaja of Punjab, haunts the diasporic imaginationSubscriber Only

5 books to understand María Corina Machado’s fight for democracy in Venezuela