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2024: A snapshot of the year in cinema

Published on Dec 27, 2024 03:12 pm IST

‘All We Imagine as Light’ directed by Payal Kapadia marks a historic milestone for Indian cinema. (Film still)

Report: Jodhpur RIFF 2024

At the Jodhpur RIFF, this year, Giridhar Udupa’s fingers moved like poetry on the ghatam. (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)

Published on Dec 26, 2024 05:29 pm IST

The novel was a dominant art form last century

Novels are not, in fact, dying: bookstores flog ever-changing stacks of new ones.(Pixabay)

Published on Dec 25, 2024 08:00 am IST

Review: You Like It Darker by Stephen King

King’s latest collection offers an interesting mix of stories in a range of genres including tales about the paranormal, horror, shock, crime and mystery. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 24, 2024 04:16 pm IST

Dechen Wangdi: “It Is hard to talk publicly about LGBT rights in Bhutan”

Dechen Wangdi (Courtesy Drukyul’s Literature And Arts Festival)

Updated on Dec 23, 2024 06:43 pm IST

Are adults forgetting how to read?

Worse still, adults in many places have grown less literate over the past ten years.(Pixabay)

Published on Dec 23, 2024 08:00 am IST

Book Box | The Best Books of 2024

My Best Fiction List of 2024

Published on Dec 21, 2024 10:41 pm IST

Navtej Sarna: “Without a sense of history, we will all become rootless people”

Author Navtej Sarna (Aayush Goel)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 02:01 pm IST

HT Reviewers pick their best reads of 2024

Japanese novels, science fiction, books on Palestine and more. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:58 pm IST

HT reviewer Saurabh Sharma picks his favourite read of 2024

Driven by the thirst for the absolute: “Acutely researched and extraordinarily narrated in writing reminiscent of reportage, The MANIAC seems to measure the entropy of the human mind.” (Penguin Pr)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:37 pm IST

HT reviewer Teja Lele picks her favourite read of 2024

Utterly butterly delicious: Apart from gastronomic exchanges, the book touches upon misogyny, sexism, the gender gap, obsession, romance, and the impossible standards that Japanese women are held to. (Fourth Estate)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:36 pm IST

HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed picks his favourite read of 2024

Alchemy and enchantment: “The book is riotously fun, akin to a Bollywood masala movie, albeit with more depth. “ (Orbit)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:35 pm IST

HT reviewer Suhit Bombaywala picks his favourite read of 2024

“This isn’t a sunny, blithe imagination, but stark and broody as it is, it has a redemptive core – a compassionate, tragic ambiance leavened by a richly detailed universe, mythological resonance, and sheer delight of a literary kind.” (Gollancz)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:35 pm IST

HT reviewer Simar Bhasin picks her favourite read of 2024

“Themes of displacement, belonging, memory and an inheritance of loss are to be found in the book which presents these experiences from a female gaze.” (University of Notre Dame Press)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:34 pm IST

HT reviewer Pranavi Sharma picks her favourite read of 2024

Rethinking what we value: “Khaled, the protagonist, recounts his friendship with two men, Mustafa and Hosam, against the backdrop of the brutal Libyan dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi.” (Penguin)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:33 pm IST

HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2024

A millennial love story: The novel moves slowly, savouringly, a classic will-they-won’t-they. So much gets in the way of them getting together, but the action, even the lack there of, never dips. (Harper)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:33 pm IST

HT reviewer Prahlad Srihari picks his favourite read of 2024

Of espionage and eco-anarchism: “Expansive though the novel may be, the writing remains nimble. Words hum with possibilities and a deadpan cool.” (Vintage)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:32 pm IST

HR reviewer Majid Maqbool picks his favourite reads of 2024

“The author tells the larger story of the dispossession of Palestinians through the life story of a Palestinian father, Abed Salama, whose son lost his life as Israeli and Palestinian rescue teams were late to reach the crash site given the crippling security regulations put in place by the Israeli state.” (Amazon)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:29 pm IST

HR reviewer Lamat R Hasan picks her favourite read of 2024

Barkatullah Bhopali, the forgotten revolutionary: “Both Irfan and Husaini dwell on Barkatullah’s extensive travels – right from the time he was forced to leave India in the 1880s. He lived in London before moving to New York, where he could take on the British more freely. He launched a barrage of articles and speeches condemning British policies, and stressed the need for Hindu-Muslim unity during the freedom struggle.” (Rekhta)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:28 pm IST

HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2024

“The authors have succeeded in revealing the lives behind the names that appear on TV news debates and humanizing them by narrating their stories.” (Context)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:27 pm IST

HT reviewer Chintan Girish Modi picks his favourite read of 2024

Pausing internal chatter: “With its short sentences, bereft of adornment and self-indulgence, it ushered me into the kind of stillness that makes one more alert to birdsong and mountain air.” (Speaking Tiger Books)

Published on Dec 20, 2024 12:25 pm IST

HT reviewer Arunima Mazumdar picks her favourite read of 2024

“When it comes to books, it’s simple – either you’re a reader or you’re not. And in What You’re Looking For Is In The Library, it’s heartening to witness non-readers finding purpose after reading a book.” (Doubleday)

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:24 pm IST

Book Review: Liberal Hearts dabbles in romance, but only for a lazy weekend

Cover of the book, Liberal Hearts by author Nayantara Violet Alva.

HTCity Delhi Junction

Published on Dec 19, 2024 03:27 pm IST

A requiem for Kolkata’s trams

Soumitra Chatterjee on a tram in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)

Published on Dec 19, 2024 01:07 pm IST

Page to screen: The highs and lows of 2024

“Netflix turning Gabriel García Márquez’s ravishing opus One Hundred Years of Solitude into ravishing TV this December bookended a demonstrably fine year for literary adaptations.” (Netflix)

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 06:18 pm IST

William Dalrymple: “This is a book about the diffusion of Indian ideas”

Author William Dalrymple (Debbie Mitra Singh/HT Photo)

Published on Dec 17, 2024 12:17 pm IST

Review: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Playground of the super rich: A view of Marigot Bay in St Lucia (Shutterstock)

Published on Dec 16, 2024 01:32 pm IST

Review: Vampire by Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai

Violence lurking in the shadows (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:22 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes one on AI and its implications for law, stories from a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, and an actor-director’s memoir (Akash Shrivastav)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:10 am IST

Mark Haddon: “Death is the engine that sits at the centre of all fiction”

Mark Haddon (Charles Moriarty/Penguin Random House)

Updated on Dec 14, 2024 05:08 am IST

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