Rereadings

Mahasweta Devi won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1979 for ‘Aranyer Adhikar’. (Getty Images)

Remembering Mahasweta Devi, a voice for the marginalized, in her centenary year

5 min read . 14 Feb 2026

Milne’s son Christopher Robin got a teddy bear for his first birthday.

Why Winnie the Pooh is the perfect role model to help us embrace the new year

6 min read . 11 Jan 2026

Devotees perform 'Pahandi' ritual during the Rath Yatra festival, in Puri. Photo courtesy PTI

The popularity of Gita Press and how it shaped modern Hindutva

5 min read . 09 Dec 2025

Krasznahorkai believes the sentence is a unit of thought. Photo: Getty Images

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's bold experiments with long sentences

5 min read . 08 Nov 2025

Marwah’s book was one of India’s earliest ‘campus novels’. Photo: iSTOCKPHOTO

India’s first campus novel returns after 30 years

5 min read . 05 Sept 2025

‘The Tall Windows’, 1913, by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi. Almost all of Howland’s novel 'W-3' is populated by patients in the grip of depression.
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Bette Howland, the writer who returned from oblivion

6 min read . 03 Aug 2025

Eddie Redmayne in a new adaptation of 'The Day of the Jackal' for television.

Frederick Forsyth's ‘Jackal’ is back in 2025

5 min read . 05 Jul 2025

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in the 2013 film ‘The Great Gatsby’

Fitzgerald’s Gatsby is still great at 100

5 min read . 10 Jun 2025

Tagore was a literary giant, who always remained ahead of his time, as well as his contemporaries in Bengal. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Looking back at the intertwined legacies of Tagore and Ray

5 min read . 04 May 2025

Kazuo Ishiguro receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. Courtesy Getty Images

A morality tale for the age of AI

5 min read . 06 Apr 2025

The Netflix show conveys the wonder but not the pace of the book.

Netflix can’t steal Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s thunder

6 min read . 09 Feb 2025

The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, ca. 1695. (Getty Images)

Stephen Fry's ‘Odyssey’: The appeal of classical stories

5 min read . 10 Nov 2024

A still from David Lean’s film ‘A Passage to India'

The hundred Indias we inhabit

5 min read . 07 Oct 2024

Czech sculptor David Cerny’s kinetic work entitled ‘The Metamorphosis’, in Prague. (Getty Images)

Franz Kafka and the truth we are afraid of

5 min read . 08 Sept 2024

Born in 1947, Paul Auster cut a unique figure among his contemporaries. (AP)

Paul Auster: A rare cultural icon who engaged and entertained

5 min read . 09 Jun 2024

Chughtai has been called the first feminist Urdu writer. Courtesy Istockphoto

The persistence of human perfidy

5 min read . 04 May 2024

It is impossible to miss Nirala’s rage against the capitalist machine or his empathy for the wretched. (iStockphoto)

Nirala's portraits of rage and love

5 min read . 13 Apr 2024

When Hyder visited the Urdu Academy in Lucknow, she remarked that the institution had become stuck in a time warp, like the language it fostered. (Getty Images)

Qurratulain Hyder: A writer of a divided world

5 min read . 02 Mar 2024

Sharmistha Mohanty in her Mumbai home in 2015. (Mint photo)

Writing at a tangent to market forces

5 min read . 04 Feb 2024

doesn’t hesitate to change her mind, revisit an idea with a reformed perspective, like the public grief over Diana's death. (Getty Images)

A masterclass by Hilary Mantel

5 min read . 14 Jan 2024