great writers
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Celebrating 75 years of Shirley Jackson’s taut, ambiguous, disturbing stories
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Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario
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Remembering writer Paul Auster (1947-2024) with a reading list of his novels, memoirs, translations
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Remembering Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé with a reading list of her novels
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‘Until August’: Nobel winner Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel is a moving testament to his genius
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In search of life and of self: Revisiting the literary works of Samaresh Basu in his centenary year
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‘Literature was always there in my head’: Historian Ranajit Guha’s late style and commitment to form
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How I rediscovered Joseph Conrad in Krakow, the Polish writer ‘who chose to write in English’
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Is popularity the reason Haruki Murakami does not win the Nobel Prize, or is it compensation for it?
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‘All I am is literature’: Franz Kafka’s diaries were the forge of his writing
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Why a generation of youngsters was drawn to the words of celebrated American author Kurt Vonnegut
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Shakespeare by numbers: how mathematical breakthroughs influenced the Bard’s plays
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, Perumal Murugan is best read for craft, not themes
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Why Franz Kafka may be ‘the last truly great writer’ of the post-modern era
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How Edgar Allan Poe came to be the champion of the awkward and misunderstood
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A genderless society, a utopian anarchy, a copper-skinned hero: Ursula K Le Guin’s subversive worlds
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In praise of Stephen King, the eternal ‘horror master’ of serious light reading
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Salman Rushdie may not have won the Nobel Prize this year, but his novels are far from outdated
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Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language
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Ranajit Guha, India’s oldest living historian, starts his 100th year with a dazzling legacy
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How should Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy be read during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
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Born 200 years ago, what is Fyodor Dostoevsky telling us today through his novels?
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Foundation: an introduction to five major themes in the work of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov
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Walter Scott at 250: So much more than a great historical novelist
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Tagore at 160: ‘People are urged to deeds of frightfulness by the goadings of manufactured panics’
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Nawal El Saadawi’s intellectual life reflected eight decades of Arab society and culture
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How music shaped Virginia Woolf’s writing
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Virginia Woolf died 80 years ago. What does reading her work in the midst of a pandemic bring us?
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From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship
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How a maligned Virginia Woolf points to the problem of generic introductions to the classics
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How Ernest Hemingway dealt with the Spanish flu pandemic: He was not a denier, he was scarred by it
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A literary gangster who protested through obscenity: the salaciousness of Henry Miller
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‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)
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Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’
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Why Premchand wanted a new ideal of education that would go against traditional social arrangements
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To understand the value of art and nature during a pandemic, we have to turn to Tolstoy and Tagore
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Why Premchand thought hatred, guided in the right direction, is as useful in life as in literature
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Remembering Aini Apa: Qurratulain Hyder, great writer, beloved aunt
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When Premchand advocated the promotion of the Hindustani language as a mixture of Urdu and Hindi
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How should parents behave with their children to make them independent? Premchand had a solution
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Father’s Day: What Ernest Hemingway felt about fatherhood, in his fiction and in his life
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‘Khuda hafiz. Kripanarayan’: Remembering Krishna Sobti with a fragment from her book ‘Dil-o-Danish’
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Revisiting Jane Austen’s fiction tells us she might have been pro-Brexit today
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Writer George Eliot has valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers
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Yours, Amrita: Remembering poet and writer Amrita Pritam on her 100th birth anniversary
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Why Rudyard Kipling fans can be happy: His works are not just about colonial stereotypes
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Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road
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‘We do language. That may be the measure of our lives’: Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize lecture
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Two hundred years later, Herman Melville’s books are talking eloquently to the modern world
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The war between Saadat Hasan the person and Manto the writer was written by Saadat Hasan Manto
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The post-human identity of Elena Ferrante: An author who is both there and isn’t
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On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom
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‘Ugra’: The Hindi writer whose provocative, satirical works had made him more popular than Premchand
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‘I saw how he sought to break the chains of caste’: Nirupama Dutt on translating Lal Singh Dil
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‘The obduracy of women’: Why J Devika translated the works of K Saraswathi Amma from Malayalam
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‘He pirated his own book’: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra on Arun Kolatkar’s bilingual poetry (and life)
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How Erasmus Darwin’s poetry foretold his grandson Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
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‘Things are not what they seem’: How Haruki Murakami blurs the lines of reality in his novels
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How the legendary Begum Akhtar influenced the life and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
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Reading Gorakh Pandey, the people’s poet who rebelled against his feudal roots
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Understanding Manto (and the Partition) on his 107th birth anniversary through Ayesha Jalal’s book
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Before ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, the town of Macondo came to life in Márquez’s short stories
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Beyond ‘Rebecca’: Daphne du Maurier’s recently discovered poems reveal a writer of great versatility
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Don’t believe the stereotype. Research shows that teenagers actually love Shakespeare
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Why India’s policymakers should read Premchand this election season
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Dineshnandini: The writer who lost more from love and life than she gained from literature
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How Intizar Husain’s Partition trilogy gently probed the wounds of the tragedy
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With his next novel, Salman Rushdie joins an illustrious line of those who rewrote ‘Don Quixote’
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‘An assemblage of images’: How Delhi and its architecture influenced the poetry of Octavio Paz
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Revisiting the works of Rajkamal Chowdhary, the writer whom Hindi literature could never categorise
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Re-reading Bhuvaneshwar, the absurdist Hindi writer who lived in railway stations and trains
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Mohsin Hamid represents Pakistani literature to many, but gives no real sense of Muslim existence
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Meet Colette: writer, feminist, performer, and gender-fluid #MeToo trailblazer
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In ‘Conversations’, Jorge Luis Borges revealed the dreams, mirrors and labyrinths of his art
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‘The Sadeian Woman’: How Angela Carter empowered her readers to embrace sexual liberation
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JD Salinger centenary: His best work was not ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, but his Glass family stories
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Amitav Ghosh’s Jnanpith award is a reminder of his uncompromisingly political writing
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What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’
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Dylan Thomas is loved for his poetry but few readers know about the darkness of his early fiction
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‘Who do we have now?’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s little-known tribute after Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s death
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How is VS Naipaul received in the classrooms of his homeland (the Caribbean, not India)?
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Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to