Why fear of India’s obscenity law turned HarperCollins prudish on a recent graphic novel, but doesn’t stop the publication of explicitly illustrated versions of the Kama Sutra

In Javier Marías’ writing, nothing is sacred, no fact safe from doubt, no story left unflipped

One of the country’s most popular romance writers, Ravinder Singh is as unabashed about being a writer who doesn’t read as he is about being a male writer of romances

Contemporary dancer Mandeep Raikhy explores ideas of masculinity in his piece A Male Ant Has Straight Antennae

Rajesh Parameswaran talks about his reluctance to talk about his writing—and the lasting lessons of failing quickly with short stories

What makes zombies interesting and why Go Goa Gone gets it right

Taiye Selasi’s first novel runs circles around the ‘African story’ you’re used to

David Ebershoff is the editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books this year. He speaks of his obsession with the manuscripts he works on

Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, the inevitability of acknowledging the reader, and how his writing has been changed by fatherhood

An extraordinary production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale breaks the monotony of theatre as usual

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…