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Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first space novel to win

Samantha Harvey wrote Orbital
Published on Nov 13, 2024 01:49 PM IST

Vaibhav Sharma: “Every translator should really like what they’re translating”

Translator Vaibhav Sharma (Courtesy the subject)
Published on Sep 24, 2024 05:33 PM IST

Michiko Aoyama – “I have a new favourite Manga author every day”

Author Michiko Aoyama
Updated on Jul 22, 2024 05:45 PM IST

Word famous: Vikas Swarup of Q&A / Slumdog Millionaire, discusses his new book

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Swarup’s own confession? He’s revelling in all the free time he now has, as a retired diplomat. ‘I sometimes have to ask my wife what day it is. It’s unreal, in a good way.’ (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 19, 2024 08:19 PM IST

Gaming the system: A Wknd interview with author Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan has been building imagined worlds for over a decade. In her first job, in 2011, she worked with California-based videogame developer Zynga, designing side quests in their games, fleshing out characters, and helping design plotlines and gameplay.
Updated on Jun 08, 2024 01:30 PM IST

Review: Tell Me How To Be by Neel Patel

Indian Americans marching in a parade in New York. (Andy Katz/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Published on May 13, 2024 08:47 PM IST

Review: The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella

The elephant in the pool (Shutterstock)
Updated on Feb 17, 2024 08:11 AM IST

Listicle: 10 book trends that will fire up your reading in 2024

People are enjoying book clubs, swaps, talks and silent reading groups.
Updated on Jan 05, 2024 06:22 PM IST

HT reviewer Teja Lele picks her favourite read of 2023

About challenging norms and fighting for equality in the 1960s (Penguin)
Updated on Dec 22, 2023 07:37 PM IST

HT reviewer Chintan Girish Modi picks his favourite read of 2023

Of bereavement and the immigrant experience in the UK (Picador)
Updated on Dec 23, 2023 10:31 AM IST

Siân Hughes, author, Pearl - “A novel has to have a life of its own”

Author Sian Hughes (Courtesy the publisher)
Updated on Sep 22, 2023 06:19 PM IST

Review: Siddhartha; The Boy Who Became the Buddha by Advait Kottary

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The statue of the Buddha at the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. (xTOLIndia.com/Shutterstock)
Updated on Sep 21, 2023 12:09 AM IST

Review: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

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Immigrant life: An Indian takeaway in the UK (Daniel Bond /Shutterstock)
Updated on Sep 12, 2023 08:34 PM IST

Review: We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama

The Dalai Lama fleeing over the Himalayas. He crossed into India on 30 March 1959. (www.dalailama.com)
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 06:19 PM IST

Authoring your first book is no easy feat. Check out these tips by experts

Authoring your first book is no easy feat. Check out these tips by experts  
Updated on Feb 03, 2022 03:31 PM IST

HT Picks: New Reads

On the reading list this week is a book on archaeology in India, a volume on the guns of a royal collector, and a searing debut novel on Naga life in the troubled 1980s and 1990s.
Updated on Nov 06, 2020 08:24 PM IST

Review: A Burning by Megha Majumdar

A shop burnt during the riots in New Delhi in March 2020.
Updated on Sep 05, 2020 10:58 PM IST

CelebsPick: 5 books that should be movies!

Five stories from books that will look great on screen
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 09:01 PM IST

Review: Patna Blues by Abdullah Khan

An illustration of the drying room of an opium factory in Patna featured in The Graphic magazine dated June 24, 1882.
Updated on May 24, 2019 10:03 PM IST

HT Picks: The most interesting books of the week

A look at why even very intelligent people make terrible mistakes, a novel that follows three lives, and a wonderful transcreation of a Mughal cookbook - all that on our list of good reads this week.
Updated on May 11, 2019 11:37 AM IST

Review: Mee and Juhibaby by Susmita Mukherjee

A jatra performance in progress.
Updated on May 15, 2019 01:28 PM IST

Review: Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

Mumbai street in 1997, the period in which Milk Teeth is set.
Updated on Mar 15, 2019 03:36 PM IST

Review: In the Time of the Others by Nadeem Zaman

Mukti Bahini liberation army troops undergoing rifle training on a rifle range in a liberated area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in November 1971.
Updated on Feb 15, 2019 05:45 PM IST

Publishers pick their favourite reads of 2018

Nothing like a good book: A mural by Artez, an artist from Serbia, on a building in Istanbul, Turkey. The mural was created as part of the 7th Mural Istanbul Street Art Festival in July 2018.
Updated on Dec 22, 2018 11:21 AM IST

Book review: Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Legends across the world hold that mermaids bring bad luck and — with their unimaginable beauty and enchanting songs — lure hapless sailors to their deaths.
Updated on Apr 30, 2018 12:17 PM IST

Review: We That Are Young by Preti Taneja

Shakespeare in India: Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal on the sets of Shakespeare-Wallah in 1965.
Updated on Apr 07, 2018 11:18 AM IST

Meet the lit world’s newest million-dollar baby

Daniel Mallory loves dogs and while he doesn’t own one, he volunteers at a dog shelter
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 11:26 PM IST

Twitter has opinions about actor Sean Penn’s bizzare debut novel and they are hilarious

Actor Sean Penn has written a novel titled Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, which released this week.
Updated on Mar 29, 2018 01:39 PM IST
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