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Alpa Shah shortlisted for Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019
June 13, 2019 11:09 IST
Published in the UK and India in 2018 and in the US this year, Nightmarch featured on a number of year-end ‘best books’ lists and has been garnering wide international acclaim.
Feather in the cap
June 14, 2019 12:50 IST
Rohan Chakravarty on his new book which talks about Bird behaviour, ecology, and why cartoons help convey the message better.
It’s impossible for an Indian to be monolingual: Amitav Ghosh
June 14, 2019 17:47 IST
On Wednesday evening, Amitav Ghosh became the first Indian writer in English to bag the prestigious Jnanpith Award
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read?
June 12, 2019 16:35 IST
With their appeal as design objects, mini books could eventually make their way into furniture and design stores and outlets like Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, potentially broadening publishers’ customer base.
Amitav Ghosh receives Jnanpith Award: A look at his best books
June 13, 2019 10:04 IST
Amitav Ghosh, who spent his formative years in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria, is known for creating rich literature out of the blind spots of history.
Writing did not take courage, it has been healing: Lisa Ray
June 12, 2019 09:33 IST
In an interview with indianexpress.com, Lisa Ray talks about her identity as an outsider, her attitude towards cancer, how the condition triggered self-introspection and her memoir.
‘Children are the toughest audience you can possibly get’: Venita Coelho
June 8, 2019 15:50 IST
Venita Coelho, who has seven published novels to her name, talks about her latest book, All of Me, and the challenges of writing for a young audience.
What Can’t Be Said Is Written
June 8, 2019 08:18 IST
The layers upon layers of Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel dress the collective wound of a nation
Sun and Shade
June 8, 2019 01:35 IST
In Beyond the Boulevard, Aditi Sriram offers a deeper look at this quaint little town — aspects of which, the average tourist might catch a glimpse of as she speeds down the narrow streets on a hired bike.
The life and times of the Hungry Generation of modern Bengali poets, arguably the most dynamic and divisive literary movement of its generation
June 9, 2019 10:21 IST
Perhaps the most debated and certainly the most divisive, “movement” in modern Bengali poetry is that of the Hungry Generation, whose founders and followers were labelled “Hungryalists”.
True lies
June 8, 2019 01:36 IST
An intriguing debut novel that explores the toxic remains of the American dream
Tayari Jones wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
June 6, 2019 14:23 IST
Tayari Jones' novel An American Marriage tells the tale of marriage wrecked by racial politics.
Plan to binge on Chernobyl? Here are 5 books on the 1986 disaster that you can read
June 6, 2019 10:49 IST
Craig Mazin, writer of HBO's Chernobyl, recently took to social media to share the books and movies he used while researching. In case you plan to read about the disaster, here are some books you can try.
Need a summer reading list? Bill Gates has some suggestions
June 3, 2019 13:56 IST
From Upheaval by Jared Diamond to A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Bill Gates' reading list is a great way to spend the summertime.
Reviving Nations
June 1, 2019 15:01 IST
Countries often mirror the individual's strategies to recover from crises
Capital Punishment
June 1, 2019 11:47 IST
Screpanti’s work would be interesting to the lay reader because he follows his arguments logically and transparently, as he traces the history and changing functions of capitalism.
Show me the Mirror
June 1, 2019 11:31 IST
A relevant, detailed text that explores, through the prism of the arts, violence that is embedded in our democratic fabric.
Someone’s Always Watching
June 1, 2019 11:11 IST
A linguistic framework to articulate the alarm that comes from a rapidly changing ecology of a digitised society.
Reviving Nations
June 1, 2019 10:51 IST
Countries often mirror the individual’s strategies to recover from crises.
Good Omens premieres: Some books by Neil Gaiman that you can read
May 31, 2019 16:32 IST
Plan to watch Good Omen? Here are some of Neil Gaiman's novels you can read to get yourself acquainted with his work.
Indian writer Annie Zaidi wins $100,000 global book prize
May 30, 2019 10:14 IST
Mumbai-based Zaidi, a freelance writer whose work includes reportage, essays, short stories, poetry and plays, won for her entry ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus' – combining memoir and reportage to explore concepts of home and belonging rooted in her experience of contemporary life in India.
Book review: The Good Son by You Jeong Jeong
May 26, 2019 11:00 IST
Chillingly described as a “psychopath’s coming of age”, the story begins with 26-year-old Yu-jin waking up covered in blood and finding his mother’s body downstairs, with her throat slit.
For the love of books: How Delhi Public Library reawakens the reader in you
May 25, 2019 12:10 IST
The library is also committed to increasing its network of mobile library services, besides community-based initiatives like a ‘Chai-brary’, a gym, children’s section and self-study room.
A Hypermaniac Adventure: Book review of The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
May 25, 2019 11:11 IST
HM Naqvi’s new novel is a baggy yarn, buoyed by a joyous celebration of a syncretic history and limited by its lack of interiority
Walk on Earth a Stranger: Book review on I have become the tide
May 25, 2019 10:39 IST
Githa Hariharan’s new novel is an angry, intimate look at systemic social oppressions
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