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Gerry Conway, comic book writer who co-created Punisher character in Spider-Man, passes away

From Spider-Man to the Avengers, Iron Man to Captain Marvel, Gerry Conway has deftly written almost every character in the Marvel Universe, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C B Cebulski said

2 May 2026 8:33 am
Interview | Saurabh Mukherjea: All routine jobs will be AI-ed out

Is Indias middle class facing an economic crisis? Equity strategist Mukherjeas new book argues that it is

1 May 2026 6:42 pm
Interview | Author Sian Hughes on exploring the idea of the invisible middle-aged woman

An abrasive heroine navigating trauma and survival is at the centre of Hughes new novel No Such Thing as Monday

1 May 2026 6:10 pm
Review | A story of outsiders in a divided Germany: The Others by Sheena Kalayil

The novel, longlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize for Fiction, ably captures the anxieties of ordinary people amid political upheaval

30 Apr 2026 2:58 pm
Everyone is busy building intelligence, but no one can define what it is

In their books, Karen Hao, Max Fisher, and Dwarkesh Patel explore the AI industry that has become a juggernaut even as it still struggles to define intelligence, measure its costs, or agree on its end goal

30 Apr 2026 2:18 pm
The Hindu on Books newsletter

The Hindu On Books newsletter aims to take you deeper into the world of literature every week.

29 Apr 2026 11:20 am
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Interview | The loss of Palestine defined my fathers life: author Hannah Lillith Assadi

Assadis novel Paradiso 17, based on her fathers life, was longlisted for this years Womens Prize for Fiction

28 Apr 2026 1:36 pm
The Humayun Nama: Reading Gulbadan Begum, the only Mughal royal woman to have written about the dynasty

Gulbadan Begum was Bbars daughter; she was asked by her nephew Akbar to write her memories of the reigns early years

17 Apr 2026 4:49 pm
Jerry Pintos tribute to R. Parthasarathy and how this poets influential voice receded from literary memory

R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage

24 Mar 2026 9:29 am
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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

7 Mar 2026 10:25 am
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Noted Bengali author Sankar dies at 93

Mani Sankar Mukhopadhays novel Chowringee captured the complexities of urban life and society

3 Mar 2026 12:21 pm
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.

12 Feb 2026 10:35 pm
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

6 Feb 2026 12:50 pm
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

30 Jan 2026 10:31 am
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

28 Jan 2026 4:40 pm
What is cyberpunk?

Technology trouble is a light term that can be used to describe the idea of this subgenre!

19 Jan 2026 4:41 pm
Shobhaa De on intimacy, pleasure, and the conversations India avoids

Shobhaa De questioned Indias enduring discomfort with intimacy, urging a shift from silence and instruction to dialogue and agency

18 Jan 2026 4:29 pm
Festschrift for Mahasweta Devi: three books by marginalised voices

In her centenary year Mahasweta Devi would have turned 100 today we read three writers, Sushila Takbhaure, Rakshit Sonawane and Mayyu Ali, who chronicle their lives of oppression. Their stories would have struck a chord with a writer who always kept an eye out for the dispossessed

14 Jan 2026 8:30 am
The importance of blue

The dark blue of indigo, which was related to the Champaran Satyagraha, soon faded from memory. It needed Ambedkar to bring it back into the public imagination

14 Jan 2026 12:58 am