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Book review: The House of Girls is a novel within a novel based in Dubai

HTCity Delhi Junction

Updated on Jul 12, 2025 02:17 PM IST

A cover of The House of Girls, written by Sonia Rafeek, translated in English by Ministhy S.

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on how diasporic South Asians have shaped UK’s LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s, another on untangling the connections between maths and music, and a Korean novel about three friends who believe good fortune is just around the corner (Shirish Sharma)

Published on Jul 11, 2025 10:51 PM IST

Catherine Chidgey: “Putting horror centre stage cheapens the story”

Author Catherine Chidgey (Saurabh Sharma)

Published on Jul 11, 2025 10:50 PM IST

Review: Little Lhasa by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa

Young Tibetans in McLoed Ganj , Dharamsala (Anushree Fadnavis/ Hindustan Times)

Published on Jul 11, 2025 10:49 PM IST

Review: The Notbook of Kabir by Anand

Painting of Kabir weaving, c. 1825 (Central Museum, Jaipur/Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jul 11, 2025 10:36 PM IST

Singapore Art Week: Wild and wonderful

Singaporean artist Jahan Loh’s Postcards from Space (Riddhi Doshi)

Published on Jul 11, 2025 04:18 PM IST

Review: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle

Condemned to repeat each day endlessly (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 10, 2025 07:47 PM IST

Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Childhood’s end. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 10, 2025 03:11 PM IST

Sophie Mackintosh: “I never really set out to write a feminist book”

Author Sophie Mackintosh (Saurabh Sharma)

Published on Jul 09, 2025 09:25 PM IST

Philadelphia; a city that reads between the lines

The Philadelphia skyline (Photo by J. Ryan for the PHLCVB)

Published on Jul 08, 2025 03:39 PM IST

Book review | Drugs, darkness and despondency rule AA Dhand's latest thriller

Cover of AA Dhand's latest book, The Chemist, is based in UK's Leeds.(Photo: X)

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Jul 07, 2025 06:49 PM IST

Venki Ramakrishnan: “The source of funding might distort research priorities”

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan (Kerala Literature Festival)

Published on Jul 07, 2025 04:52 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of recipes from the princely state of Rampur, an account of the Hindi belt, a region that greatly influences the nation’s politics, culture, and identity, and a volume on the power of data. (HT Team)

Published on Jul 05, 2025 08:49 AM IST

Avi Shlaim: “The essence of Judaism is non-violence ”

Iraqi-born British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim (Corbis via Getty Images)

Published on Jul 05, 2025 08:46 AM IST

Review: Society Girl by Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood-Khan

Scene of the crime: Karachi. Pakistan in the 1970s. (Marka/Universal Images Group via)

Published on Jul 05, 2025 08:43 AM IST

Review: Life on Mars by Namita Gokhale

Pahari painting of Gandhari with maid-servants, by Purkhu, c. 1820 CE. “The pleasure of reading Life on Mars is that the stories aren’t driven by moral arcs, as much as I ached to pass a judgement. They are driven by discomfort. Qandhari blindfolded herself and became a queen, a mother of a hundred sons. She is a woman raging at the absurdity of her fate”. (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jul 05, 2025 08:40 AM IST

Review: Hubris Maximus; The Shattering of Elon Musk by Faiz Siddiqui

Elon Musk at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France on June 16, 2023. (REUTERS)

Published on Jul 04, 2025 08:59 AM IST

Review: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

A quiet town in Northern Ireland much like the one that’s the setting for Sunburn. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 03, 2025 06:11 PM IST

Sahana Ahmed: “As an army kid, I grew up around people who could move mountains”

Sahana Ahmed of Bare Bones Publishing (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jul 02, 2025 05:41 PM IST

Ten lessons I learned from Kaziranga

A magnificent rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park (Shutterstock)

Published on Jul 02, 2025 05:02 AM IST

Jim Rion: “Fair-play mystery is still alive and well in Japan”

Jim Rion (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jun 30, 2025 11:33 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a portrait of one of India’s first public intellectuals, the raw material of internet life, and tracing the journeys of eight singular voices (Shirish Sharma)

Published on Jun 27, 2025 10:49 PM IST

Ocean Vuong: “War is the most common and steadfast reality of our species”

Author Ocean Vuong (Gioncarlo Valentine/Courtesy https://www.oceanvuong.com/)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 10:48 PM IST

Review: Loal Kashmir by Mehak Jamal

Under the chinar trees at the Nishat Mughal garden in Srinagar. (Waseem Andrabi/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 27, 2025 10:46 PM IST

Behind the scenes of Deepa Bhasthi’s new book

A page from Champi and the Fig Tree (Courtesy Pratham Books)

Published on Jun 27, 2025 10:45 PM IST

Tim Wigmore: “India now has a much better idea of how to nurture fast bowlers”

Author Tim Wigmore (Courtesy Hachette)

Published on Jun 27, 2025 01:47 PM IST

Report: The Purusha Prakriti exhibition, Ahmedabad

Ankon Mitra’s A Fleeting Moment of Infinite Bliss and Ram Kumar Manna’s Ganeshas (Saurabh Sharma)

Published on Jun 26, 2025 09:01 PM IST

Review: Viewfinder – A Memoir by Amol Palekar

Smita Patil and Amol Palekar in Tarang (1984). (Film still/HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 26, 2025 03:23 PM IST

Pooja Bavishi: “The book is about celebrating the flavours of South Asia”

Pooja Bavishi at her Philadelphia ice cream parlour (Courtesy Malai / Morgan Ione Photography)

Published on Jun 25, 2025 05:34 PM IST

Book Review: Japanese writer Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lost Souls… lingers long

Cover of Mizuki Tsujimura’s latest book titled Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Jun 25, 2025 03:42 PM IST

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