LITERARY TRIBUTE
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How Marathi literary giant Anant Kakba Priolkar became a pioneering historian of print in India
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Remembering Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz, who feared fanaticism everywhere
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‘Bodyfears, here I stand’: Remembering Gieve Patel, a man for the stage and the page
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‘Today, I stand on the bank of the poem’: Jayanta Mahapatra reminds us that poetry must always flow
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‘I wouldn’t know what else to do:’ The poetic life of Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-2023)
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Writer Devaki Nilayangode (1928-2023): A life of no rancour, accusation, judgement, or regrets
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A master of paradox: Memories and impressions of reading Milan Kundera in the 1990s
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‘Who shall I turn to at my darkest moment?’: In memory of Shobita Punja, a friend like no other
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Mystique, minimalism and cataclysm: Cormac McCarthy’s dark counter-narrative to American optimism
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Remembering Zamir Ansari: The head of the erstwhile Penguin Overseas was a legend of publishing
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Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): The thinker and historian was also an idealistic political activist
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Martin Amis (1949-2023): His pyrotechnic prose captured life’s destructive energies
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Samaresh Majumdar (1944-2023): The writer whose novels of politics set Bengali hearts on fire
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Patrick French (1966-2023): A historian and biographer who wrote with empathy and erudition
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Kenzaburo Oe (1935-2023): Nine books that reveal the Japanese Nobel-prize winning writer’s themes
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KV Tirumalesh (1940-2023) enriched Kannada poetry with his eclectic taste and cosmopolitanism
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Saleem Peeradina (1944-2023) was a poet who taught as well as a teacher who wrote poetry
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Remembering Abdul Sattar (1945-2023): The bibliophile of Pahari Imli and chronicler of Delhi
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Remembering Gulshan Rai of Diamond Comics: The man who gave us Chacha Chaudhary
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Farewell to bookseller Mirza Yaseen Baig of Midland, who always greeted readers with recommendations
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Temsula Ao (1945-2022): The Naga writer’s literary legacy covers more than her stories and poems
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Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more
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Writer Javier Marías (1951-2022): ‘The world has become childish to an incomprehensible extent’
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Why writer Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) never stopped trying to change the world
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‘A dignified son of the Western Ghats’: A tribute to Narayan, one of India’s early Adivasi writers
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The subversive genius of Marathi writer and rationalist Nanda Khare (1946-2022)
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Publisher and editor Nandita Aggarwal (1964-2022): Colleagues, writers remember a warm human being
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What made Maria Aurora Couto write books that were deeply political and heartbreakingly personal?
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Afra Bukhari (1938-2022): The short story writer from Pakistan was among the last of a generation
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Why writer Maria Aurora Couto (1937-2022) was the grand dame of letters and culture of Goa
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Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey: A writer who brought vernacular Bengal into throbbing life in English
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‘The Center Will Not Hold’: Remembering the life and times of author Joan Didion
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Remembering bell hooks: The feminist author lives on through the truth of her words
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Mannu Bhandari (1931-2021) portrayed the desires and ambitions of middle-class women
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What reading Kamla Bhasin taught a professor of English literature (and her students)
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Why those who believe in the ancient civilisations of South Asia must read Robert Calasso’s books
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‘Because he did not stop for death’: Four poems for photographer Danish Siddiqui
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Ki Rajanarayanan (1923-2021): Tamil literature’s grey eminence was a pioneer of people’s stories
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‘What he gave our city’: Ramchandra Guha on TS Shanbhag (1937-2021), the ‘Bookseller of Bangalore’
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Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021): A poet who could not be compared with any of his contemporaries
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer
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‘I always found him reading’: A tribute to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi from younger brother NR Farooqi
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Three recollections of Sunil Kumar, the historian who stood tall against majoritarian politics
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Mangalesh Dabral (1948-2020): All his life, he was essentially writing love poems
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-2020): Why this death leaves a permanent patch of darkness in literature
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Jayant Meghani (1938-2020): Remembering the meticulous bookseller of Bhavnagar
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John le Carré (1931-2020): The former agent who leaves us a literary legacy of spies
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On watching Soumitra Chattopadhyay play King Lear on stage
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Why Tamil publisher Crea Ramakrishnan’s literary legacy will be long-lasting
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Sri Lanka’s most famous children’s books author Sybil Wettasinghe dies at 92
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Gulzar Dehlvi (1926-2020) defended the metaphor of Urdu with the subtle weapon of his poetry
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Goodbye Asif Farrukhi (1959-2020): Writer, translator, editor, and lover of fine literature
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Debesh Roy (1936-2020): The Bengali novelist who spent his writing life in search of a local form
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Nisar Ahmed (1936-2020): Three poems that show his concern with politics, philosophy, justice
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RV Smith (1938-2020): We know so much about Delhi past and present because he discovered it for us
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Eavan Boland (1944-2020): A tribute to the poet who wrote ‘Quarantine’, from a former colleague
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Albert Uderzo (1927-2020) embedded Asterix & Co in our heads with his trademark comic illustrations
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There’s something about Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020): Remembering the bestselling suspense writer
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Why Sonny Mehta (1942-2019) was often called the ‘best publisher in the world’
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019): Two tributes to a Bengali writer who became a legend in her lifetime
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Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019): A writer both bawdy and lyrical, both irreverent and political
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Will we read Toni Morrison in troubled times? Yes, we will read Toni Morrison on troubled times
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Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader’s imagination
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Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019): The dazzling Kenyan writer who embodied a politics of truth
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Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats
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Namvar Singh (1927-2019) was the most powerful critic and influencer of modern Hindi literature
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What translating Krishna Sobti revealed: She did not write to help the reader understand
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Krishna Sobti (1925-2019): The fearless writer who always put her relationship with herself on trial
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Poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) gave readers quietude, rich simplicity and narratives of nature
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The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus
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Tamil writer Prapanchan (1945-2018) brought new elements into fiction with versatility and assurance
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A true polymath: Remembering Aniket Jaaware – scholar, novelist, essayist and above all, teacher
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‘Never thought of myself as a rebel. A poet has a different framework’: Fahmida Riaz (1946-2018)
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Meena Alexander (1951-2018): The poet from India who lived and wrote with sensitivity for the world
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Vishnu Khare (1940-2018) influenced Hindi literature hugely with what he wrote and what he taught
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VS Naipaul (1932-2018): A memorable writer whose books were informed with a dubious political gaze
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Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity
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Neeraj (1925-2018): ‘I grew so infamous in my time, it will take centuries for me to be forgotten’
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Tamil poet ML Thangappa (1934-2018) leaves behind a prolific and unparalleled legacy of translations
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Adieu, Philip Roth, you seeped through our skins (while we weren’t looking)
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‘Getting people right is not what living is all about anyway’: Seven ways to remember Philip Roth
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The literary establishment may have detested him, but Tom Wolfe elevated journalism to literature
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Balakumaran (1946-2018) struck a chord with readers because he gave a voice to ordinary individuals
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Remembering the writer who redefined Madurai: Arshia, aka Syed Hussain Basha ( 1959-2018)
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Rajni Tilak (1958-2018) was an activist and poet who fought tirelessly against caste and patriarchy
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Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) was above all a humanist poet, profound in his simplicity
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Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything
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Remembering Niranjan Bhagat (1926-2018), a giant of Gujarati poetry
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Remembering Chandi Lahiri, the unapologetic Bengali cartoonist who never made it beyond his state
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Which of the wondrous universes she created might Ursula K LeGuin (1929-2018) have retired to?
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Remembering Gnani Sankaran (1954-2018): Playwright, journalist, and tireless fighter for justice
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Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923-2018) was a trailblazing leader of radical thinking on racism and class
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They don’t make poets, translators and performers like Anwar Jalalpuri (1947-2018) anymore
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There’s a reason many more Indians might want to read the works of Clarice Lispector
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Goodbye to a citizen poet: Kunwar Narain’s immaculate poems capture the thoughts of an era
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Rereading Kurt Vonnegut, the writer who could depict the human condition with paper clips and aliens
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Giving a voice to the oppressed: Why Tamil writer Melanmai Ponnusamy (1951-2017) remained a Leftist
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Both life and literature were unconventional for Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940-2017)
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Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) not only wrote memorable science-fiction, but also defined the genre
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‘I’ve a thirst for all forever, but the lines come to an end’: A requiem for poet Vijay Nambisan