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Review: Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot
Published on Jan 30, 2025 04:48 PM IST
Wajsbrot demands the full attention of her reader as she plays with form, ideas and writing in this novel about an unnamed protagonist arriving in Dresden to translate Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
Rahul Singh
Lucy Caldwell and the return of the short story
The author, a mistress of paradoxes who defies genre even as she creates mysteries, will be at the Jaipur Literature Festival this year
Published on Jan 29, 2025 07:29 PM IST
Vayu Naidu
‘Sunrise Over Valivade’: a historical record and an intimate family account
Susheel Gajwani’s memoir, the first record of a refugee camp near Kolhapur, captures the resilience, struggles, and identity of Sindhi Hindus displaced from their homeland
Published on Jan 29, 2025 05:58 AM IST
Saaz Aggarwal
Neil Gaiman’s US comic publisher drops author amid sexual assault allegations
Author Neil Gaiman has been dropped by his comic book publisher, Dark Horse Comics, following multiple sexual misconduct allegations; read
Published on Jan 28, 2025 06:56 PM IST
Aadrika Sominder
Report: Walking Bookfairs Travel Writing Festival
The second edition of the literary festival held in Puri had participants sharing stories and histories, looking at the city beyond the Jagannath temple.
Published on Jan 27, 2025 07:10 PM IST
Akankshya Abismruta
Book Box | An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
The landscapes of life and literature meet in Wild Fictions, the new book of essays by Amitav Ghosh
Published on Jan 26, 2025 09:31 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of essays on climate change and the fictions we weave to absorb history, a tome that delves into Savarkar’s writing and speeches to arrive at a portrait of the man, and a story about three generations of gay men in India
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:35 PM IST
HT Team
Charlotte Wood – “Art is a place to turn to in times of trouble”
On experimenting in Stone Yard Devotional with how far she could go in making a story that depends on stillness and silence and yet shimmers with energetic force
Updated on Jan 24, 2025 10:33 PM IST
Simar Bhasin
Review: The Story of Eve by Zehra Nigah
This collection of Urdu poetry translated into English by Rakhshanda Jalil brings out the Pakistani poet’s sustained examination of the world around her
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:31 PM IST
Review: ‘The Assamese’ by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
Encyclopaedic in scope and epic in range, The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community is full of details about Axom’s origins and the mind-boggling pluralities of its history, society, art, culture, music, theatre, textiles and craft
Published on Jan 24, 2025 10:27 PM IST
Whisky, haggis and the poetry of Robert Burns
On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed down with a warming dram of whisky
Published on Jan 24, 2025 02:28 PM IST
Teja Lele
Report: The Rainbow Literature Festival 2024
The event provided a safe and inclusive space for crucial conversations on queerness, identity, sexuality, gender, and rights
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 06:59 AM IST
Areeb Ahmad
Snap-happy: Thank goodness for my bad camera!
How using underperforming gear and having a relatively cheap camera on his midrange phone, set the writer free to play with creative photography
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 07:01 AM IST
Suhit Bombaywala
Review: Fangs of Death by Maanas Lal and Aloke Lal
A finely told page-turner featuring the true story of the sensational Kerala snake bite murder, the book also presents the technicalities of law and forensic science
Updated on Jan 22, 2025 08:30 AM IST
Percy Bharucha
Elli Miller Maboungou: “Sometimes, drums speak for themselves”
The percussionist and composer on his Congolese and Jewish American heritage, and navigating the financial instability of an artistic career
Published on Jan 21, 2025 03:22 PM IST
Kanupriya Dhingra: “Daryaganj’s magic lay in its unpredictability”
The author of ‘Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar’ on the Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar.
Updated on Jan 21, 2025 07:51 AM IST
Majid Maqbool
Book Box | Reading without rules
On why there are no rules when it comes to reading
Published on Jan 18, 2025 08:01 PM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that looks at how the cellphone has rewired childhood and what to do about it, another that presents easy, healthy, and innovative recipes for children battling cancer, and a volume on the economic and political forces that have shaped India’s public sector
Published on Jan 17, 2025 10:15 PM IST
HT Team
Thao Lam – “There is an audience for all kinds of stories”
The Vietnamese-Canadian illustrator and author of children’s books spoke about her family’s refugee past, assimilating into Canadian culture, ants, and why there’s nothing wrong with being angry
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 10:15 PM IST
Review: Glass Bottom by Sonali Prasad
Adeptly written and almost poetic, this climate fiction that features daughters and mothers brings the earth’s environmental crisis into sharp focus
Published on Jan 17, 2025 10:14 PM IST
Review: Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada by Shahu Patole
Apart from presenting unique recipes, this book also offers a critique of food and through it, an accurate analysis of Indian society
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 10:13 PM IST
Toni Morrison on separating yourself from the work you do
As the discussion about work-life balance, the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist’s thoughts on work seem particularly pertinent
Published on Jan 17, 2025 02:38 PM IST
Reading David Lodge’s ‘Nice Work’ in difficult times
The campus novels of the British novelist, who died aged 89 earlier this month, are pressingly relevant even today
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 06:26 AM IST
Uttaran Das Gupta
Review: The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas
A novel about people untethered by tradition, it asks existential questions that touch on how rituals and routines give life shape and meaning
Published on Jan 16, 2025 02:28 PM IST
Chronicles in the language of ghosts, birds and beasts
On translating a story dating back to the Satavahana era that still appeals to the modern reader.
Updated on Jan 16, 2025 05:08 AM IST
Neil Gaiman denies SA allegations with strikingly similar comment as Weinstein
Neil Gaiman's first comment on the string of SA allegations levied against him appears to be rather similar to that of Weinstein's, before his legacy collapsed
Published on Jan 15, 2025 03:37 PM IST
Neil Gaiman's assault accusations resurface as Rowling compares him to Weinstein
As author Neil Gaiman's sexual assault allegations resurface, J.K. Rowling explosively compares him to disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein; read
Published on Jan 14, 2025 03:30 PM IST
Aadrika Sominder
Ugly business; About ‘The Substance’
A dissection of Coralie Fargeat’s horror sensation about the emotional violence of beauty standards and of body dysmorphia rendered nightmarishly concrete
Published on Jan 14, 2025 03:12 PM IST
Report: Himalayan Echoes Festival
Thoughtful programming and warm hospitality marked the event that was held over two bracing November days at the Abbotsford Estate in Nainital
Updated on Jan 13, 2025 09:42 PM IST
Book Box | A Turkish anthropologist and Pico Iyer teach me where Paradise is
Travelling from Mumbai to Goa with lessons from two books, and a walk by the Arabian Sea
Published on Jan 11, 2025 08:47 PM IST