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Review: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Published on Jun 11, 2025 10:37 pm IST

The possible view from a port of the Matilda (Shutterstock)

Review: This American Woman by Zarna Garg

Stand-up comic and author Zarna Garg (Courtesy zarnagarg.com)

Published on Jun 11, 2025 08:04 pm IST

GN Devy: “There is a forest of languages growing around us”

GN Devy (Courtesy Aleph)

Updated on Jun 10, 2025 05:07 pm IST

Daneesh Majid: “History has mostly been written by those in power”

Author Daneesh Majid (Courtesy Instagram)

Published on Jun 09, 2025 05:54 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a volume on how myths help us understand the world, a book on making brands relevant, and another on the Indian economy since 1947. (HT Team)

Published on Jun 07, 2025 06:34 am IST

Scaachi Koul: “Every writer should be in therapy”

Author Scaachi Koul (Courtesy Penguin)

Published on Jun 07, 2025 06:32 am IST

Review: The Diamond-Encrusted Rat Trap by Adil Jussawalla

Beating Mumbai’s scorching summer at Mahim Beach. (Vijay Bate/HT PHOTO)

Published on Jun 07, 2025 06:28 am IST

Review: The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

The Stockholm Concert Hall, where the award ceremony for the Nobel Prize for Literature is held each year. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 07, 2025 06:26 am IST

Author Stephen King: I’m a very chipper guy, I get rid of all dark stuff in book

Author Stephen King, and cover of his 2020 book titled The Life of Chuck.(Photo: Shane Leonard)

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Jun 06, 2025 02:39 pm IST

Report: Bazm-e-Virasat

Shubha Mudgal performing at Bazm-e-Virasat (Courtesy Bazm-e-Virasat)

Updated on Jun 06, 2025 12:34 pm IST

Review: Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek

The city of Homs, a rebel stronghold during the Syrian Civil War. (Shutterstock)

Published on Jun 05, 2025 08:32 pm IST

Review: The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told

A view of the mustard fields of Punjab. (Sameer Sehgal/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 05, 2025 06:21 pm IST

‘Breaking the Engagement’ Review: The China-U.S. Divorce

‘Breaking the Engagement’ Review: The China-U.S. Divorce

Published on Jun 05, 2025 12:35 pm IST

Sunitha Krishnan: “There is nothing more horrendous than sex trafficking”

Activist and author Sunitha Krishnan (Courtesy Westland)

Published on Jun 04, 2025 10:58 pm IST

Fallout: Post-apocalypse now

Ella Purnell as Lucy, the lawful good vault-dweller who is in for a rude awakening in Fallout. (Courtesy Amazon Prime)

Published on Jun 03, 2025 06:20 pm IST

Sheena Patel: “Now we even have narratives underneath narratives”

Author Sheena Patel (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on Jun 02, 2025 04:51 pm IST

Book Review: Great Big Beautiful Life is steeped in mystery but soggy on romance

Cover of the book, Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.(Photo: Instagram/emilyhenrywrites)

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Jun 02, 2025 03:23 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a childhood memoir, a tribute to Subhas Chandra Bose by a former officer in the INA, and a collection of diverse poems on Indian cities (Shirish Sharma)

Updated on May 30, 2025 09:42 pm IST

Anna Funder: “Orwell was sadistic, paranoid and misogynistic”

Author Anna Funder (Courtesy Annafunder.com)

Updated on May 30, 2025 09:40 pm IST

Review: Soumitra Chatterjee and his World by Sanghamitra Chakraborty

Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)

Published on May 30, 2025 09:39 pm IST

Review: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A publisher tells one of the central characters in this novel, Chiamaka, an aspiring author, to work on something on the Congo before starting her travel memoir, adding that “Somalia and Sudan could work too”. In the picture, the Tulu Niari river in The Republic of Congo. (Shutterstock)

Published on May 30, 2025 09:38 pm IST

A tale of three cities

Bergen, a little slice of literary heaven, where every street corner seems to be straight out of a fairytale. (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 30, 2025 02:20 pm IST

Review: My Palestine; An Impossible Exile by Mohammad Tarbush

Palestinians next to the rubble of houses destroyed in Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2024. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo)

Updated on May 29, 2025 02:49 pm IST

Report: Remembering Veenapani Festival (RVF), 2025

Team Adhishakti’s Bali, written and directed by Nimmy Raphel, explored questions on deceit, gender and power. (Mohan Raj)

Updated on May 29, 2025 11:17 am IST

Kaluram Bamaniya: “Kabir invites us to go within”

Kaluram Bamaniya in performance (Jodhpur RIFF)

Published on May 27, 2025 02:34 pm IST

Faria Basher: “I realised the only way to become a writer was to start writing”

Writer Faria Basher (Courtesy X)

Published on May 26, 2025 05:44 pm IST

Exclusive | Int'l Booker Prize winner Banu: No one should politicise language

Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, is the first Kannada writer to have won the International Booker Prize in London.(Photo: Alberto Pezzali/AP )

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on May 25, 2025 10:39 am IST

Book review: Age of Mondays' lyrical prose brings magical realism to Delhi

Cover of the book, Age of Mondays, written by Lopa Ghosh.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on May 25, 2025 07:00 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on the Ghadar Movement, quotations from Seneca, and the biography of an underrated Hindi film maker (Shirish Sharma)

Published on May 24, 2025 05:14 am IST

Sam Leith: ‘Read what you enjoy’

Author Sam Leith (Jaipur Literature Festival)

Published on May 24, 2025 05:12 am IST

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