books and literature

Coimbatore City Commissioner’s new book is an ode to Nature, childhood and more

“Look up at the sky, and you will be amazed by the imagery emerging from there,” says V Balakrishnan...

Life at the limit: review of Luca Del Monte’s Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon

In the mid-1990s, when I was reporting Formula One races in Europe, the most impressive sight in the...

Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dies at 92

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92...

Life comes a full circle for this first-time author from Kerala whose book is selling at the same store he stole a Harry Potter book

When the last instalment of the Harry Potter series, The Deathly Hallows, hit bookstores in 2007, Re...

What are you reading, Hyderabad?

Booked on Sundays This June, Read a Kitaab celebrates a year of encouraging the act of reading in Hy...

Albania’s world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88

Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earne...

In the digital age, here’s how bookshops in Delhi are reinventing themselves

At the launch of author Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s latest novel Chronicle of a Hour and a Half at Th...

Turkish duo pen bestselling novel though prison bars

A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their penpal ex...

Gaja Capital Business Book Prize 2024 announces shortlist

Innovation, business leadership, resilience, and the triumph of entrepreneurship in overcoming perso...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 winner Han Kang's books fly off the shelves in South Korea

South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday ( October 11, 2024) and crashed websites in a frenzy ...