MT Vasudevan Nair (1933-2024): The Master

MT Vasudevan Nair (1933-2024): Kerala’s Goethe

The doyen of Malayalam literature had a profound influence on writing and films beyond the state

Love, Lately

It’s an awakening in loneliness

The Tailor

A poem

Editor’s Note

India's story is too big to be left to rejectionists or cheerleaders

Kultural Revolution

South Korea as a cultural superpower

Han Kang: Sublime and Subversive

The new Nobel laureate in literature plumbs the fears and fragility of the human soul with such wicked relish

Ismail Kadare (1936-2024): Balkan Conscience

He brought Albania to Europe and redefined literary resistance to totalitarianism

Editor’s Note

Under Western Eyes

How to counter a civilisational subversion