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HT Picks; New Reads

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 17:23 IST

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book by a Jungian analyst that helps Indian readers understand love, an updated edition of a classic work on cancer, and a collection of 200 of Mir’s best verses. (Akash Shrivastav)

Neige Sinno: “Abusers are regular people”

Author Neige Sinno (Domine Jeromeabaca/Courtesy The French Institute in India)

Published on Feb 13, 2026 17:22 IST

Review: Stories from a Kargili Kitchen by Yash Saxena

Children playing cricket at Matayen village in Kargil. (Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 17:21 IST

Review: The Maker of Filmmakers by Radha Chadha

Akira Kurosawa (centre) addressing students at FTII. Jagat Murari is at right. (From The Maker of Filmmakers)

Updated on Feb 13, 2026 17:14 IST

Solace from the printed word

“Books have always kept me company.” (Shutterstock)

Published on Feb 12, 2026 11:35 IST

On Delhi’s many stories

Aishwarya Jha (L) and Sara Abdullah Pilot, co-founders of Kahaani: Dilli Ki (Pix courtesy Kahaani: Dilli Ki)

Updated on Feb 9, 2026 22:17 IST

Review: Window With a Train Attached by CP Surendran

CP Surendran (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Feb 6, 2026 22:12 IST

Review: Never Logged Out by Ria Chopra

Always online: Young Indians (NuDebajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Published on Feb 6, 2026 22:06 IST

Shida Bazyar: “The majority of Iranians want democracy”

Author Shida-Bazyar (Courtesy the author)

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 19:08 IST

Benyamin: “Courage is basic to writing”

Author Benyamin (Courtesy Kerala Literature Festival)

Published on Feb 6, 2026 08:32 IST

Book Review: Roopa Unnikrishnan's The Jasmine Murders is more than a whodunnit

The cover of Roopa Unnikrishnan's debut fiction novel, The Jasmine Murders.

htcity delhi junction

Published on Feb 6, 2026 06:47 IST

Report: Prithvi Festival

Yuki Elias in A Fish Ate My Cat (Courtesy Prithvi Theatre)

Published on Feb 6, 2026 24:40 IST

Review: Birds, Sex & Beauty by Matt Ridley

Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) at lek. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 01:34 IST

Winter reading retreats in the Himalayas

The hush of the mountains in winter. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Feb 5, 2026 01:11 IST

Report: Ghazipur Literature Festival

Vivek Satya Mitram, Zolani Mkiva and Pooja Priyamvada at the festival. (Courtesy Ghazipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Feb 4, 2026 06:26 IST

Book Box: The Short Stories That Saved My Week

Books that feature in this week's column.

Updated on Feb 2, 2026 24:40 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

On the reading list this week is a graphic novel on belonging and becoming and a sumptuous volume on Indian jewellery. (Akash Shrivastav)

Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:52 IST

Review: The Elsewhereans by Jeet Thayil

Hong Kong in the 1970s. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:50 IST

Satoshi Yagisawa: “My books are more popular in India than in Japan”

Author Satoshi Yagisawa (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:44 IST

Review: Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal by Sumana Roy

Rabindranath Tagore (centre) with Romain Rolland (to Tagore’s left) and friends. (HT Photo)

Published on Jan 30, 2026 21:42 IST

Report: Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

The Ladies of the Booker Prize session featuring Deepa Bhasthi (second from left), Jenny Erpenbeck (centre) and Banu Mushtaq (second from right). (Courtesy UWRF)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 07:48 IST

Review: Katabasis by RF Kuang

Spiralling down to the underworld. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 28, 2026 04:57 IST

Sunita Williams: “We have to find common ground”

Sunita Williams at the Kerala Literature Festival 2026. (Courtesy KLF)

Published on Jan 26, 2026 21:30 IST

Report: Travel Writing Festival

Jerry Pinto, Ravi Singh, Sanjay Kak and Sampad Patnaik at the Travel Writing Festival (Akankshya Abismruta)

Published on Jan 26, 2026 06:02 IST

Book Box: A Republic on rails — Finding India in its trains

Representational image.

Published on Jan 25, 2026 07:21 IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an ambitious anthology of Bengali writing in translation, a queer debut novel, and a book on the French Empire in India. (Akash Shrivastav)

Updated on Jan 24, 2026 05:28 IST

Hemang Ashwinkumar: “I have seen words transform lives”

Translator Hemang Ashwinkumar (Courtesy the subject)

Published on Jan 23, 2026 16:04 IST

Review: Landscapes of Wilderness by Narendra

The woods are lovely, dark and deep: Abujhmad (Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Jan 23, 2026 16:03 IST

Richard Flanagan: “It’s the job of writing to be true”

Author Richard Flanagan (Courtesy Jaipur Literature Festival)

Updated on Jan 23, 2026 16:01 IST

V Srinivas: “My fiction writing style is like that of a surgeon – cut and dry”

Author V Srinivas (Courtesy the subject)

Updated on Jan 24, 2026 05:29 IST

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