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The word this week: Autobiography

November 16, 2014 00:12 IST

Playing it My Way comes on the heels of Kevin Pietersen’s autobiography, the unimaginatively named KP, which threw English cricket into a tizzy.

I want to look at the big things that exist in the micro-moments: Ben Okri

November 16, 2014 13:04 IST

Nigerian writer Ben Okri talks about returning to fiction with The Age of Magic, the influence of African mythology in his writing and a lot more.

Talking about this generation

November 15, 2014 00:40 IST

From an Indian Pinocchio to teenage voices that ring true, a round-up of the latest in children and YA fiction.

The Discovery of Nehru

November 15, 2014 00:27 IST

Historians, writers and politicians recommend a Nehru reading list.

After the End: Letters for a Nation From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963

November 15, 2014 00:18 IST

Letters Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to his chief ministers on the death of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel reveal how important both were to his worldview.

Celebrity blogger Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist on his latest book

November 13, 2014 10:16 IST

Schuman is giving his nearly 4,52,000 followers more than a passing peek into his wonderfully dichotomous life these days.

I feel like I’ve come home: Bestselling author Dan Brown on his first official visit to India

November 11, 2014 10:33 IST

On his first official visit to India, bestselling author Dan Brown speaks at The Penguin Annual Lecture about science and religion and how he tries to make the twain meet.

Book review: Read this book for D’Souza’s stabs at the hype around Tendulkar’s final three days as a Test cricketer

November 10, 2014 11:40 IST

A book that puts into perspective the hype surrounding Tendulkar’s last Test match.

Book review: Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography is an engaging portrait of the Little Master

November 10, 2014 11:40 IST

It’s not as explosive as his batting, but Tendulkar’s autobiography is an engaging portrait of the Little Master and the sport that became his life

Rajdeep Sardesai’s book on a watershed general election is audaciously early

November 10, 2014 11:20 IST

Sardesai also does a good job of balancing out two other manifestations of Modi: the development guru and the Hindu chauvinist.

To Chetan Sir, With Half-Love

November 1, 2014 02:34 IST

The biggest-selling writer’s new novel is dogged by the old problem of terminal corniness

Book review – Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician

November 3, 2014 13:02 IST

How did Muhammad Iqbal go from being a champion of inclusiveness to a believer in the Land of the Pure? A new biography doesn’t quite have the answers

Lives of the Poets

November 1, 2014 02:36 IST

The grand old man of Urdu literature, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, on a new translation of his stories, reinstating the past in the present, and why India can’t afford to forget.

Stacking the Odds: When was the last time the bookies got the Nobel right?

October 26, 2014 01:00 IST

The last time the bookies got the Nobel right was in 2006 when Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won.

Black Pepper, Red Pepper: India and the First World War

October 25, 2014 12:16 IST

A book with rare photographs and anecdotes highlights the divide between Indian soldiers and their European counterparts during WW I

Book review: The Zone of Interest is about a romance in Auschwitz

October 25, 2014 12:20 IST

An old-fashioned novel that wavers between satire and sentimentality

Book review: The Bone Clocks is a giddy, freewheeling, genre-switching literary confection

October 25, 2014 12:32 IST

A giddy, freewheeling, genre-switching literary confection

Such a Long Journey: The longlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is out

October 21, 2014 11:01 IST

The longlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is out.

Four Indian authors in DSC prize longlist

October 21, 2014 10:49 IST

The 10 authors have been longlisted from 75 entries received from publishers across the world by a five-member jury chaired by noted poet and writer Keki N Daruwalla.