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Book Box | Looking for the snow leopard in a hospital cafeteria

Updated on Sept 28, 2025 04:22 pm IST

The Snow Leopard

Book picks; new reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a look into the life a legendary Indian classical musician, and a novel set across Asia at the peak of the Delta wave (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Sept 28, 2025 04:54 am IST

Poetry pick: Grief by Meera Ganapathi

107pp, Rs599; HarperCollins

Published on Sept 28, 2025 04:52 am IST

Richard Osman: “Crime as a genre transcends genre”

Author Richard Osman (Conor O’Leary)

Published on Sept 27, 2025 03:14 am IST

Review: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) stands at an easel outdoors, adjusting a canvas from her 'Pelvis Series- Red With Yellow,' in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960. In Desai’s novel, Ilan calls O’Keeffe a phoney. (Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images)

Published on Sept 27, 2025 03:08 am IST

Review: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhathi Roy

Arundhati Roy giving the keynote address at the 7th Kolkata People's Film Festival at Uttam Mancha in Kolkata on January 23, 2020. (Samir Jana / Hindustan Times)

Published on Sept 26, 2025 11:52 pm IST

Devoney Looser: “It’s the right time to make the case for Austen’s wild side”

Author Devoney Looser

Published on Sept 26, 2025 09:13 am IST

Vietnamese literature: From the classic to the contemporary

The Bookworm Hanoi, one of the oldest English-language bookstores in the capital of Vietnam. (Arunima Mazumdar)

Published on Sept 25, 2025 06:19 pm IST

Bialik in translation: Peter Cole and the politics of poetic memory

A long wagon train of rural Jewish refugees in Rowno (Rivne), northwestern Ukraine. From 1903-1906 pogroms left thousands of Jews dead and caused migration to North America. Hayim Nahman Bialik’s In the City of Slaughter (1904) is a Hebrew poem about the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev, which borders north western Ukraine and is today in Moldova. (Shutterstock)

Published on Sept 25, 2025 01:19 pm IST

Review: The Eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad

Death and devastation in Gaza in a picture dated September 16, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Updated on Sept 24, 2025 07:20 pm IST

Kiran Desai returns to the 2025 Booker shortlist after 19 years with new novel

Kiran Desai shortlisted for Booker Prize with new novel

Published on Sept 24, 2025 06:03 pm IST

Six books to read to understand Europe’s hard right

Representative image.(Agency)

Published on Sept 24, 2025 06:44 am IST

Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson: “Writing together is easy”

Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos at the Neev Literature Festival in Bengaluru (Courtesy Neev Literature Festival)

Updated on Sept 23, 2025 09:07 pm IST

Review: Selected Poems by Kiriti Sengupta

“The Bengali in Sengupta erupts again in a light-hearted poem entitled Masala Muri , in which he writes in a nostalgic vein of this snack...” (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sept 22, 2025 07:19 pm IST

Book Box | Other people's lives: The ethics of the tell-all

As I read these books and discuss them with friends and book clubbers, one question keeps coming up - is it okay to tell other people's stories?

Published on Sept 21, 2025 01:16 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an account of democracy in South Asia, a prison memoir by a Dalit intellectual, and a classic volume on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. (Akash Shrivastava)

Published on Sept 20, 2025 04:54 am IST

Benjamin Wood: “Creativity has saved me from mental trauma”

Author Benjamin Wood (Courtesy The Booker Prizes)

Published on Sept 20, 2025 04:48 am IST

Review: A Teashop in Kamalapura & Other Classic Kannada Stories

A village in Karnataka (Shutterstock)

Published on Sept 20, 2025 04:36 am IST

Kiran Desai: “There’s an artistic hunger that lends itself to betrayal”

Author Kiran Desai (M Sharkey)

Published on Sept 20, 2025 04:26 am IST

Review: The Man Who Became Cinema; Dilip Kumar by Ashok Chopra

Vyjayanthimala and Dilip Kumar in Gunga Jamuna (1961). (HT Photo)

Updated on Sept 19, 2025 04:41 pm IST

Book review: Khushboo Patani pays an ode to the female spirit in her letters

Wellness expert and former Army Major Khushboo Patani has come up with her new book, Letters From The Womb. (Photo: Instagram)

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Sept 19, 2025 11:42 am IST

Roxy Mathew Koll: “India is a hotbed for climate change”

Climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival)

Published on Sept 18, 2025 11:09 pm IST

Review: Good Girl by Aria Aber

A techno club in Berlin (Shutterstock)

Published on Sept 18, 2025 01:20 pm IST

Arundhati Ghosh: “No love is easy — you just choose your kind of hardship”

Author Arundhati Ghosh (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sept 17, 2025 10:52 pm IST

Review: Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

A breathtaking aerial view of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sept 17, 2025 12:21 am IST

Shloka Shankar: “Nothing is more fulfilling than being a literary midwife”

Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Sept 16, 2025 12:33 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This weeks’ pick of interesting reads includes the story of one man’s journey from the margins to the mainstream, a book of portraits of eminent personalities, and a collection of pictures of Delhi from the DAG collection. (Monica Gupta)

Published on Sept 13, 2025 03:30 am IST

Yuki Tejima: “I miss talking about the books I’m not translating”

Translator Yuki Tejima (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Sept 13, 2025 03:26 am IST

Review: The Extraordinary Life of Max Bulandi by Sidharth Singh

1970s Indian psychedelic rock band, Atomic Forest (HT Archives)

Published on Sept 13, 2025 03:22 am IST

Review: Nautch Boy by Manish Gaekwad

Meena Kumari in Pakeezah. “The music and film actors strewn along the narrative... aren’t throwaway references; they’re lifelines connecting mother and son. Sridevi, Meena Kumari, Sonu Nigam, and Shah Rukh Khan all play their parts; indeed, each animates the duo’s imagination as much as their professional and personal lives.” (Film still)

Published on Sept 13, 2025 03:14 am IST

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