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Book Box | Walking with Margaret Atwood in the Himalayas

Book Box | Walking with Margaret Atwood in the Himalayas
Updated on Nov 23, 2025 04:29 pm IST

Review: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Amy Tan, Udaipur (Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi)
Published on Nov 01, 2024 09:46 pm IST

Margaret Atwood's fireproof The Handmaid's Tale to be auctioned

A fireproof edition of "The Hansdmaid's Tale" is a symbol against book banning and destruction.
Published on Jun 07, 2022 08:38 pm IST

Avni Doshi, Hilary Mantel in Booker Prize longlist

Avni Doshi, author of Burnt Sugar
Updated on Jul 28, 2020 10:59 am IST

Spectator by Seema Goswami: Comfort reading

Your favourite books can soothe you much more than actual meditation does
Updated on May 03, 2020 02:43 am IST

Novelist Margaret Atwood on how she escaped the coronavirus scare

Atwood spoke about how she managed to give the disease a miss as she had been travelling since January.
Updated on Apr 20, 2020 02:04 pm IST

Covid-19: What to read during, after a pandemic

A woman reads as she sits in a window as another woman carries bags after shopping at an open market following the coronavirus disease outbreak (Covid-19) ahead of Greek Orthodox Easter in Athens, Greece, April 17, 2020.
Updated on Apr 19, 2020 06:56 am IST

Deepika Padukone to receive Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum, for spreading mental health awareness

Deepika Padukone at the trailer launch of film Chhapaak.
Updated on Dec 13, 2019 07:33 pm IST

Star Trek writer DC Fontana no more: Five women authors of sci-fi you must read

The memorable character of Spock in Star Trek was created by screenwriter DC Fontana
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 10:19 am IST

Rules from 1993 waived as Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo win 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo jointly win the Booker Prize for Fiction 2019 at the Guildhall in London, Britain.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 03:37 pm IST

Margaret Atwood is one of this year’s Booker Prize winner. Here are her top 5 books you must read

Author Margaret Atwood reads an extract during the launch of her new novel The Testaments at a book store in London, Britain late September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 02:19 pm IST

It’s a tie: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize for Fiction

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize for Fiction.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:32 am IST

Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie vie for Britain’s 50th Booker Prize

This year’s shortlist features six novelists - four of them women - born across four continents. It is also no longer called the Man Booker because of a sponsorship change.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 01:56 pm IST

Margaret Atwood’s longtime partner, author Graeme Gibson, dead at 85

In this March 16, 2017 file photo, author Margaret Atwood, center, appears with her editor Nan Talese, left, and partner Graeme Gibson in New York.
Updated on Sept 19, 2019 06:58 pm IST

Margaret Atwood said global politics led to the sequel of Handmaid’s Tale

Atwood said she had not planned a sequel to the story, but real-life political events, including moves to limit women’s reproductive rights, led her to reconsider.
Updated on Sept 10, 2019 05:34 pm IST

Copies of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale sequel, The Testaments, released early by mistake

Retailers were instructed to keep The Testaments strictly under wraps until its official release on September 10, but several online customers have already received the much-anticipated novel.
Updated on Sept 06, 2019 11:41 am IST

Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie shortlisted for Booker Prize

Canadian author
Updated on Sept 05, 2019 05:40 pm IST

Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in The Testaments

She has written more than 40 books — novels, story collections, essays and poems — and her awards include the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin and Canada’s Giller Prize for Alias Grace.
Updated on Sept 05, 2019 03:50 pm IST

Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood make it to the Booker Prize shortlist

Salman Rushdie’s latest novel ‘Quichotte’ has been nominated for the 2019 Booker Prize.
Published on Sept 03, 2019 06:21 pm IST

From Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments to Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte, here are most popular fiction titles this fall

This combination of photos shows cover images from anticipated releases, from left, "The Testaments," by Margaret Atwood, "The Institute," by Stephen King, "Quichotte," by Salman Rushdie and "The Water Dancer," by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Nan A. Talese/Scribner/Random House/One World via AP)
Updated on Aug 29, 2019 01:16 pm IST

The gems of the Booker trove: 2019 longlist

The gems of the Booker trove: 2019 longlist
Updated on Aug 09, 2019 12:01 pm IST

Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood in longlist for Booker Prize 2019

Author Salman Rushdie
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 04:21 pm IST

Bollywood Bookshelf: The book-loving funnybone

Actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna says, contrary to her real-life choice in men, she likes smart, almost sedentary men in fiction
Updated on Dec 31, 2018 06:26 pm IST

A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians score SAG nominations. See full list

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bradley Cooper, left, and Lady Gaga in a scene from A Star is Born. The cast was nominated for a SAG Award for best ensemble.
Updated on Dec 13, 2018 01:20 pm IST

Margaret Atwood to release Handmaid’s Tale sequel

File photo of author Margaret Atwood
Updated on Nov 29, 2018 11:17 am IST

Cli-fi: Climate change, global warming and the birth of a new genre

The term and the genre, Climate Fiction or Cli-Fi was officially coined in the late 2000s.
Updated on Nov 26, 2018 05:46 pm IST

#MeToo personal for ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ costume designer

The red habit and white bonnet synonymous with ‘
Updated on Oct 18, 2018 06:22 pm IST

Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Glam as glam can be

(LtoR) Natasha Poonawalla at the Met Ball; Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja.
Updated on May 30, 2018 12:17 pm IST