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Book Review: Author Adichie paints grief through immigrant lives, in Dream Count

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Published on Apr 26, 2025 09:36 AM IST

Cover of the book, Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on an important former princely state’s past and future, a first-person account of danger on the high seas, and a volume on the stunning works of Indian artists of the 18th and early 19th centuries who worked for patrons in the foreign trading companies (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Apr 26, 2025 06:46 AM IST

Bena Sareen: “Every book is a new challenge”

Bena Sareen (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Apr 27, 2025 12:18 PM IST

Review: Myth, Memory & Folktale of the Wancho Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh by Tara Douglas and Jatwang Wangsa

View of a Wancho village in Arunachal Pradesh (Tara Douglas)

Published on Apr 26, 2025 06:40 AM IST

Abdulrazak Gurnah: “Silence can also be vocal”

Abdulrazak Gurnah (Lane+Co)

Published on Apr 26, 2025 06:34 AM IST

Review: Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

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Women in Zinacantan, Mexico. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 25, 2025 06:36 PM IST

Review: Hope; The Autobiography by Pope Francis

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Pope Francis gestures from a balcony as the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) message is delivered, at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, in the Vatican, April 20, 2025. (Yara Nardi/REUTERS)

Published on Apr 24, 2025 03:58 PM IST

Review: Cities Rethought by Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith et al

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A view of Mumbai (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 24, 2025 06:52 PM IST

Essay: The library as a safe space

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What makes a library a safe and welcoming space, especially for children and young adults who are anxious, or are excluded by peers? Perhaps this has much to do with librarians. (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 23, 2025 02:56 PM IST

James Bradley: “The ocean shapes the world”

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Author James Bradley at JLF 2025 (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Apr 23, 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review: Dream Girl Drama is a rom-com, passionate read? Yes! Riveting? Ahem

Author Tessa Bailey's latest book, Dream Girl Drama is worth a read of you are a rom-com lover.

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Published on Apr 22, 2025 04:53 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of short fiction with the author’s trademark wry humour, pages from a writer’s journal, and a book on the state of Myanmar (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Apr 19, 2025 06:46 AM IST

Yaroslav Trofimov: “I’m a Soviet melting pot”

Author Yaroslav Trofimov (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Apr 19, 2025 06:43 AM IST

Review: The Viceroy’s Artist by Anindyo Roy

Painting titled ‘Kinchinjunga from Darjeeling' (1877) painted by Edward Lear. (Getty Images)

Published on Apr 19, 2025 06:39 AM IST

Review: How I Write by Sonia Faleiro

Girish Karnad directing Arundhati Nag in ‘Bhikre Bimb’. Girish Karnad and the American novelist Elizabeth Gilbert both believed that a story chooses its author. (HT Photo)

Published on Apr 19, 2025 06:33 AM IST

Tales of patriarchy and puzzlement

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India’s linguistic landscape is rich and diverse. The Mozhi Prize’s aims include fostering a “continuous and engaged conversation between writers, readers and critics operating in different languages”, to bring about reduction in “opaqueness between the Anglophone world and non-English Indian languages”. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 04:12 PM IST

A Complete Unknown: When Bob Dylan plugged in

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Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. (Film still)

Updated on Apr 18, 2025 06:47 AM IST

Review: Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan

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A woman in the Canadian wilds. (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 17, 2025 09:31 PM IST

Taking the Tolkien trail in Birmingham

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Birmingham today. (Visit Birmingham)

Published on Apr 16, 2025 02:15 PM IST

Report: Hyderabad Literary Festival

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A tribute to Keki Daruwala at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2025 (Akankshya Abismruta)

Published on Apr 15, 2025 07:06 PM IST

Kiran Bir Sethi: “Every child is born with extraordinary abilities”

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Author and educationist Kiran Bir Sethi (Courtesy Harper Collins)

Published on Apr 14, 2025 05:15 PM IST

Book Review: Counterattacks at Thirty is unputdownable by way of relatability

The cover of Counterattacks at Thirty by Won-Pyung Sohn

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Published on Apr 14, 2025 02:09 PM IST

Review: James Bond Will Return edited by Hines, McSweeney and Joy

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Daniel Craig in No Time to Die (2021) (Film still)

Published on Apr 11, 2025 09:54 PM IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an autobiographical book that blends anecdote with social commentary, a novel about Parsis that presents the community’s eccentricities, and a manifesto that dares the reader to make the world a better place (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:27 PM IST

Irenosen Okojie: “I never think of genre when I’m writing”

Irenosen Okojie at JLF 2025 in Jaipur (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:26 PM IST

Review: The Green Book; An Observer’s Notebook by Amitava Kumar

A house damaged due to land subsidence at Joshimath in Uttarakhand in 2023. (Ayush Sharma/ANI)

Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:24 PM IST

Review: Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages edited by Prathama Banerjee

Figures from the Jatakas on pillars at the Sanchi Stupa. (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 11, 2025 08:21 PM IST

Aspiring to greatness

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Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist (Film still)

Published on Apr 10, 2025 03:10 PM IST

Review: When Love Is Lost by Kalyani Sardesai

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Will they have a happily ever after? (Shutterstock)

Published on Apr 08, 2025 09:58 PM IST

Report: Jaipur BookMark 2025

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Vasudhendra, Michael Houlgate and Isabelle Kenyon at the event. (Jaipur Bookmark)

Published on Apr 08, 2025 09:57 PM IST

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