Graphic novel as a literary quest

A journalistic exercise on tawaifs, which also provides a history of sexuality, secularism and ‘propriety’ in India

Jack Reacher is out on his 24th mission. The creator of popular fiction’s most read solitary vigilante opens up

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel about Kabir collapses under its didactic weight

Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International prize in 2018. The Polish novelist is again in the running with an old-fashioned whodunnit

An internationally acclaimed short film tells the Santhals’ story

The malleability and universality of the characters in Little Women remain fresh 150 years after its publication

Manav Kaul, actor and author, refuses to be boxed in

Anand Tiwari tells Aditya Mani Jha why his romantic comedy is different

Hindi cinema’s second wave of rape-revenge films gets bloody but begets no justice