Plot twist: bookstores in India are alive
Independent outfits are opening at a pace not seen in years. The new format is smaller, more curated, more local, and the business is increasingly bolstered by cafs and events
The arrow and the abyss | Review of Ankit Kawades The AmbedkarNietzsche Provocations
Ankit Kawades debut work shows how B.R. Ambedkar repurposes Nietzsches concept against hierarchical order
How death leaves behind unfinished plans and unanswered questions
In some books, neat endings and the ticking off of bucket lists are narrative devices meant to reassure us that death brings with it a reckoning. But several recent novels are less inclined to offer such comfort, instead confronting readers with the uncertainty and disorder surrounding death
Taiwan Travelogue wins International Booker Prize 2026
The novel, originally written in the Mandarin Chinese,succeeds as both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel
Review | Rene Karabashs She Who Remains reimagines gender and freedom through Albanias sworn virgins
The International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is a haunting meditation on identity, violence and the cost of freedom
Gulbadan Begum was Bbars daughter; she was asked by her nephew Akbar to write her memories of the reigns early years
Review | Yang Shuang-zisTaiwan Travelogue, shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize
Translated from the Mandarin by Lin King, the novel documents Taiwan in a state of cultural osmosis
Another industry hit by global war The US-Israel-Iran conflict is now disrupting raw material supply and impacting Indias 8,000-crore condom manufacturing industry.
R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage
Daily Quiz: on John Steinbeck who has been called a giant of American letter
American writer John Steinbeckwas born on February 27, 1902. Here is a quiz on the author who has been called a giant of American letters
Letters off the wall: Exploring Varsha Seshans novel and career
Friendship can happen in the most wholesome, and sometimes, the most interesting ways possible. Varsha Seshan -- through the pages of her novel The Wall Friends Club --- explores a one of a kind friendship: one exchanged in letters.
In conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, author of Demon Copperhead
At the Kolkata Literary Meet, the Pulitzer-winning author discusses the role of literature in cultivating compassion, writingDemon, and her new book
Mark Tullys India stories, talking to George Saunders, Anthony Hopkins memoir and more
Interview | Booker Prize-winningauthor George Saunders on his new novel,Vigil
A complex satire of corporate greed and moral culpability, Vigil is the authors first novel in nearly a decade
Lalita Iyers book on ageing is about finding our authentic selves
In her recent book, Aging (Un)Gracefully, author Lalita Iyer says that growing old is both a liberation and a licence to be your true self
