Lighting Up Rooms

The Helicoptering Author

The Demon in the Machine

The possibilities and limits of AI-authored thrillers

The Young and the Literate

The 16th Jaipur Literature Festival brought in A-list speakers and first-class listeners

The Hoot and Call of Books

The 15th Jaipur Literature Festival was more intimate in scale and more Indian in content

The Author between the Lines

Do we read too much biographical detail into novels?

Sunlight on Our Broken World

Mini Kapoor

Poets and Proselytisers

The cliques, clans and defining moments of the 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival

Aatish Taseer, 38, Karan Mahajan, 35, Authors

Finer points

Elif Shafak: ‘I defend a pluralistic, liberal democracy’

Turkish author Elif Shafak tackles difficult subjects, often to the ire of the ruling regime. She tells Rajni George how storytelling can create empathy