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    Report: Jodhpur RIFF 2024

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    Published on Dec 26, 2024 11:59 IST
    At the Jodhpur RIFF, this year, Giridhar Udupa’s fingers moved like poetry on the ghatam. (Jodhpur RIFF/OIJO)

    The novel was a dominant art form last century

    Novels are not, in fact, dying: bookstores flog ever-changing stacks of new ones.
    books
    Published on Dec 25, 2024 02:30 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 24, 2024 10:46 IST

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

    Dechen Wangdi (Courtesy Drukyul’s Literature And Arts Festival)
    books
    Updated on Dec 23, 2024 13:13 IST

    Are adults forgetting how to read?

    Worse still, adults in many places have grown less literate over the past ten years.
    books
    Published on Dec 23, 2024 02:30 IST

    Book Box | The Best Books of 2024

    My Best Fiction List of 2024
    books
    Published on Dec 21, 2024 17:11 IST

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

    Author Navtej Sarna (Aayush Goel)
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    Published on Dec 20, 2024 08:31 IST

    HT Reviewers pick their best reads of 2024

    Japanese novels, science fiction, books on Palestine and more. (Akash Shrivastav)
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    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:28 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:07 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:06 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:05 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:05 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:04 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 20, 2024 07:03 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)
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    Published on Dec 20, 2024 07:03 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 20, 2024 07:02 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 06:59 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:58 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 06:57 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)
    books
    Published on Dec 20, 2024 06:55 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:54 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 09:57 IST

    A requiem for Kolkata’s trams

    Soumitra Chatterjee on a tram in Apur Sansar (1959). (Film still)
    books
    Published on Dec 19, 2024 07:37 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 18, 2024 12:48 IST

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

    Author William Dalrymple (Debbie Mitra Singh/HT Photo)
    books
    Published on Dec 17, 2024 06:47 IST

    Review: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

    Playground of the super rich: A view of Marigot Bay in St Lucia (Shutterstock)
    books
    Published on Dec 16, 2024 08:02 IST

    Review: Vampire by Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai

    Violence lurking in the shadows (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:52 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)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:40 IST

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

    Mark Haddon (Charles Moriarty/Penguin Random House)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:38 IST

    Review: The Last Time I Saw You by Akhil Katyal

    On the nature of love and mortality. (Shutterstock)
    books
    Updated on Dec 13, 2024 23:34 IST
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