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A timely literary listicle

Updated on Oct 15, 2025 16:57 IST
The rainbow flag, a symbol of LGBTQ pride and social movements. (Shutterstock)

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection of stories on love, loss and kindness, a volume of character sketches on Punjab’s iconic cultural personalities, and a genre-bending memoir (Akash Shrivastav)
Updated on Oct 10, 2025 20:12 IST

Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players... (Shutterstock)
Published on Oct 8, 2025 21:40 IST

Review: Pious Labor by Amanda Lanzillo

A commemorative postal stamp of British India depicting King George V and a mail train. Pious Labor by Amanda Lanzillo quotes from Kalid-i-san‘at ( The Key to Industry , 1890) by Hakimuddin, who worked at the North Western State Railway Locomotive Department at Sukkur (Sindh). He refers to the “train of endless progress”. (Shutterstock)
Published on Oct 7, 2025 08:06 IST

Book Box | My best fiction of 2025

Autumn Reading.
Updated on Oct 5, 2025 09:36 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a collection on urban Indian women dealing with mental health conditions, a book on how Hindi came to be written down, and a volume that explores a woman’s life in post independent India (Akash Shrivastav)
Published on Oct 3, 2025 22:18 IST

Review: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Jeju Island in South Korea. “Midway through, Serk’s sabbatical takes him to Japan. His parents were from Jeju Island and learning, as a child, that the place wasn’t Japanese but Korean was “so profoundly disorienting that the greater discovery, that he himself was Korean, was for the moment secondary.” (Shutterstock)
Published on Oct 2, 2025 08:55 IST

Review: A New World Romance by Susham Bedi

Bridging the old world and the new: An Indian couple in USA. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Oct 1, 2025 17:02 IST

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 Sep 27, 2025 23:24 IST

Poetry pick: Grief by Meera Ganapathi

107pp, Rs599; HarperCollins
Published on Sep 27, 2025 23:22 IST