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Review: Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 09:43 pm IST

The uses of art. (Shutterstock)

Sandip Roy: “Chapal Rani made his own rules; that’s why he’s a queer survivor”

Author Sandip Roy (Courtesy Seagull Books)

Updated on Jul 20, 2026 05:01 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a veteran journalist’s account of his years in Bolywood, an Israeli peace activist’s reports from the West Bank, and poetry on exile and extinction. (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:06 am IST

Farrukh Dhondy: “Writing fiction is never a purely logical process”

Author Farrukh Dhondy (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:04 am IST

Review: The Girl from Fergana by Jonathan Gil Harris

A woman preparing kurut (dried yogurt balls), a traditional Kyrgyz food, in the Fergana Valley in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan. (Anadolu via Getty Images)

Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:02 am IST

Review: The Tihar Players; A Prison Memoir by Mahmood Farooqui

Prisoners in Tihar jail (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 18, 2026 03:00 am IST

Aditya Bhushan: “Women’s cricket in India mirrors broader social change”

Aditya Bhushan, author, Her Story, Her Glory (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jul 16, 2026 02:56 pm IST

Review: The Madhouse by Gyan Chaturvedi

A scene from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936), which deals with dehumanisation in an industrial world. Almost a century later, the pressure to be ever productive hasn’t eased. (Film still)

Published on Jul 16, 2026 02:39 pm IST

Review: Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion

Migrating white-naped cranes (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 16, 2026 09:38 am IST

Laura Spinney: “Widespread literacy has slowed down language evolution”

Author Laura Spinney (Studio Cabrelli)

Updated on Jul 14, 2026 07:38 pm IST

Jonathan Gil Harris: “Whether we like it or not, we are all syncretic”

Author Jonathan Gil Harris (Courtesy Aleph)

Updated on Jul 13, 2026 08:32 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes the story of a woman’s search for self realisation after her husband is outed as a sexual harasser, a collection of Emily Eden’s mid-19th century lithographs of India, and an ascetic’s 1898 account of travelling across the high Himalayas (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:06 am IST

Tara Menon: “People don’t stay in friendships if they don’t want to”

Author Tara Menon (Lauren Crothers)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:04 am IST

Review: The Bengali Reader,Edited and translated by Arunava Sinha

A still from the Bengali film Jana Aranya (1976) by Satyajit Ray. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:02 am IST

Review: The Durian Flavour by Gurjit Singh

A scene from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 11, 2026 03:00 am IST

In the Welsh town that became a City of Literature

A view of Aberystwyth (Courtesy Visit Wales)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 03:13 pm IST

Deepta Roy Chakraverti: “Strong willed women can achieve anything”

Author Deepta Roy Chakraverti (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jul 10, 2026 03:20 pm IST

Review: The Dark-Coloured Waters by Danesh Rana

A bridge over the Chenab in Himachal Pradesh (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 09, 2026 01:22 pm IST

Martin Goodman: “I see myself as a cultural translator”

Author Martin Goodman at the Kerala Literature Festival in January 2026. (Kerala Literature Festival)

Updated on Jul 08, 2026 07:51 pm IST

Shape of Momo: of home staying and leaving

Gaumaya Gurung in Shape of Momo (Film still)

Published on Jul 07, 2026 01:17 pm IST

Jo Harkin: “The Middle Ages was full of bold and irreverent voices”

Author Jo Harkin (J Robaczynski)

Updated on Jul 06, 2026 03:42 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on how an everyday digital reflex has deepened inequality, an account of the immediate period after independence, and a novel on the horrors of displacement (Amit Sharma)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:06 am IST

Juhea Kim: “Through beauty, we can make people care again”

Author Juhea Kim (Ubud Writers & Readers Festival)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:04 am IST

Report: Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop 2026

Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, Tracy K Smith at the Himalayan Literature Festival in Kathmandu. (Himalayan Literature Festival & Writers’ Workshop)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:02 am IST

Review: Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir and the Mughal Empire by Munis D Faruqui

Portrait of Aurangzeb by (perhaps) Bichitr. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jul 04, 2026 03:00 am IST

Ruhr: from industrial graveyard to green urban lab

The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a reworked industrial space in Germany’s Ruhr. (Veidehi Gite)

Updated on Jul 03, 2026 02:04 pm IST

Siân Hughes: “Middle-aged women are invisiblised all over the world”

Author Siân Hughes (Stretton Studios)

Published on Jul 02, 2026 07:57 pm IST

Reading the world: On destination book clubs

Istanbul (Courtesy Expedia)

Updated on Jul 01, 2026 10:15 pm IST

Review: Slow Burn by Amal Singh

Amal Singh’s Slow Burn plays with the doppelganger trope even as it evokes nostalgia for the old Bollywood masala film. Above, a scene from Don (2006) (Film still)

Published on Jul 01, 2026 07:23 pm IST

Shunali Khullar Shroff: “I need a wife”

Author Shunali Khullar Shroff (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jun 30, 2026 09:14 pm IST

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