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Review: Ignorance and Bliss by Mark Lilla

Updated on Dec 12, 2025 11:06 IST
The impulse to live in absolute ignorance is a seductive one. (Shutterstock)

Sophie Kinsella and the hammer blow of fate

Author Sophie Kinsella poses on Wimbledon Village high street, London on September 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Adam Butle, File)
Published on Dec 11, 2025 12:11 IST

Review: Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta

London when it pours. (Shutterstock)
Published on Dec 11, 2025 06:56 IST

‘Warhead’ Review: Cerebral Combat

“Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain” (St. Martin’s, 400 pages, $32)
Updated on Dec 11, 2025 04:44 IST

Budapest for booklovers

The Ervin Szabo Metropolitan Library in Budapest (Courtesy We Love Budapest)
Published on Dec 10, 2025 06:57 IST

Book Box | A reader in Morocco

Doors of Morocco.
Updated on Dec 7, 2025 15:51 IST

Review: Boats in a Storm by Kalyani Ramnath

The silver chariot of Lord Murugan makes a return trip from the Nattukottai Chettiar Temple to the Kovil Veedu temple in Penang (Shutterstock)
Published on Dec 6, 2025 02:12 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on Mumbai’s diverse cuisines, another that blurs the boundaries of fiction and autobiography, and a volume on Sikh Kashmir shawl patterns. (Akash Shrivastav)
Updated on Dec 6, 2025 00:39 IST

Papyrus, the reed that wrote history

A work of art on papyrus displayed at the Amon Papyrus Museum in Cairo. (Veidehi Gite)
Published on Dec 5, 2025 07:27 IST

Review: Hijacked by Pralav Dhyani

A military patrol ship on the high seas. (Shutterstock)
Published on Dec 4, 2025 01:36 IST

Tom Stoppard and the triviality of history

Tom Stoppard at the Jaipur Literature Festival on 22 January 2012. (Jasjeet Plaha/Hindustan Times)
Published on Dec 2, 2025 11:38 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a biography of a legend in the gems and jewellery industry and a celebration of a rural childhood (Akash Shrivastav)
Published on Nov 29, 2025 01:46 IST

Review: The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst

An English village much like the one that’s the setting for The Boyhood of Cain. (Shutterstock)
Published on Nov 28, 2025 06:44 IST

Indian Literature: Of oral lore and beyond

Women singing folk songs at a ceremony in Rajasthan. (Shutterstock)
Published on Nov 27, 2025 12:41 IST