Sunday book pick: A band of single women make sense of changing world order in 1853 novel ‘Cranford’

Mar 23, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson is an utterly mad novel

Mar 16, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Husband, wife, and a sex robot in Rachel Ingalls’s 1987 novella, ‘In the Act’

Mar 09, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: A security guard’s front-row view of the consumerism mania in ‘Standing Heavy’

Mar 02, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘We Do Not Part’ by Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

Feb 23, 2025 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Ari Gautier’s ‘The Thinnai’ is a rambunctious novel about Pondicherry’s ‘natives’

Feb 16, 2025 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: A shocking tale about the mad pursuit of freedom in Stefan Zweig’s ‘A Chess Story’

Feb 09, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Horror icon Shirley Jackson’s final novel ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’

Feb 02, 2025 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: In his memoir ‘Exit Wounds’, journalist Peter Godwin probes his dilemma of ‘home’

Jan 26, 2025 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Myths and truths of man in Iris Murdoch’s ungovernable novel ‘The Sea, The Sea’

Jan 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: The pleasures of abiding by your convictions in ‘The English Understand Wool’

Jan 12, 2025 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Empathetic and nuanced stories of animal-human conflict in ‘The Mirror of Wonders’

Jan 05, 2025 · 08:00 am

Sunday book pick: ‘The Year of the Hare’, a 1975 Finnish novel, shows how to create your own miracle

Dec 29, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Sexual escapism and familial expectations lock horns in ‘The Children’s Bach’

Dec 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The sex lives of Iranian housewives in Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Embroideries’

Dec 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is a novel you dream, not read

Dec 08, 2024 · 10:03 am

Sunday book pick: ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is a novel you dream, not read

Dec 08, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: ‘My Heavenly Favourite’, a novel about sexual grooming puts the reader in a trance

Dec 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

Sunday book pick: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s only short story ‘Recitatif’

Nov 24, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’

Nov 17, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: The many reflections of womanhood in Danielle Pender’s ‘Watching Women and Girls’

Nov 10, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: The fabulous life of a Bombay spinster in Eunice de Souza’s ‘Dangerlok’

Nov 03, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Being young and bored in Carson McCullers’s novel ‘The Member of the Wedding’

Oct 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita’ is the perfect introduction to Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre

Oct 20, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘Farewell Song’, Rabindranath Tagore’s metafiction novel meant to silent critics

Oct 13, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: ‘Spring Garden’ is a sobering novel about what uninspiring buildings do to a city

Oct 06, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Sunday book pick: We do not need to know everything about the Andamanese, says ‘The Last Island’

Sep 29, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The poems in WH Auden’s ‘Another Time’ flaunt his talents as a storyteller

Sep 22, 2024 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: In ‘Soldier Sailor’, the horrors of being a mother to your child (and husband)

Sep 15, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: In ‘Karmachari’, VP Kale reimagines what contentment for urban Indians looks like

Sep 08, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: In ‘Thirst’, Jesus is god’s son, a miracle worker, and a man who was killed

Sep 01, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Why the children’s classic ‘The Wind in the Willows’ inspires joy in adults

Aug 25, 2024 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Through tales of food and desire, ‘Butter’ depicts a deeply misogynistic Japan

Aug 18, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Annie Ernaux’s writerly and personal selves come together in ‘Exteriors’

Aug 11, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: A train ride ends in murder in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’

Aug 04, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Shakespeare in Palestine in Isabella Hammad’s ‘Enter Ghost’

Jul 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: Lin Xinwu’s 1984 novel ‘The Wedding Party’ reveals the true cost of a wedding

Jul 21, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: A marriage made in hell in Jibanananda Das’s 1970 novel ‘Malloban’

Jul 14, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The long hours of an endless night in ‘The Private Lives of Trees’

Jul 07, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The perils of artificial intelligence in the 1966 novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’

Jun 30, 2024 · 03:30 pm

Sunday book pick: A forensic report of urban loneliness in Olivia Laing’s ‘The Lonely City’

Jun 23, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: A Jewish refugee in Bombay in Anita Desai’s novel ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’

Jun 16, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: The weight of unknowable grief in Elena Ferrante’s debut novel, ‘Troubling Love’

Jun 09, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: The darkly comic and sex-talking novel ‘Big Swiss’ tells women to take it easy

Jun 02, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: A luckless love in ‘Kairos’, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize

May 26, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: In Geetanjali Shree’s ‘The Roof Beneath Their Feet’, women defy definitions

May 19, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: Yukio Mishima’s novel ‘After the Banquet’ presents the tomb that is marriage

May 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: In ‘Stet’, a fascinating portrait of the English publishing industry and its stars

May 05, 2024 · 08:30 am

Sunday book pick: In ‘Such a Long Journey’, how an ordinary heart travels in turbulent times

Apr 28, 2024 · 07:30 am

How Eve Babitz’s book ‘Sex and Rage’ changed my life

Jun 23, 2022 · 08:30 am

If you liked Netflix’s ‘The Chair’, read these four novels set in English departments

Nov 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

Four Haitian-authored novels that guide readers through the country’s history and reality

Aug 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works, now translated into English

Aug 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why it’s difficult to discover good books though they are out there

May 31, 2015 · 05:30 pm