The other evening, as my maid and I sipped our usual cup of tea, she recounted a charming anecdote from her train journey home, a few months ago. Seated opposite her in the compartment ...

If you've ever asked, "Why doesn't literature talk about climate change more?", Amitav Ghosh beat you to it. In this fiery ...

Parallel Lines is a beautifully convincing and affirming book based on a series of coincidences and awkward connections.

Over the past four decades, India's state apparatus has slowly been sold off to private capital. Consequently, economic ...

American Gothic literature portrays architecture as the ... This is timeless Gothic territory but, postmodern in nature, is reconfigured: what was once the fear of ancestral sin now becomes ...

Don’t! Don’t you dare pick up that lauki!” my husband hissed dramatically, as if I were about to defuse a bomb instead of choosing a vegetable. We were standing by the local vegetable cart ...

The writer Rumaan Alam has noticed that readers, especially as of late, can be quick to dismiss novels that have characters they find unpleasant. But “when a character on the page is able to get under ...

A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness ...

Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if ...

T he concept of narrative holds a foundational place in philosophy, literature and social theory—especially when examined ...

Let’s see a little skin around here! Let’s get naked!” It’s March 1, 1969, and Jim Morrison is in full rock god mode onstage ...