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literature

Shakespeare and Company

The localisation of the bard as a cultural study

Amos Oz as Patriot and Dissident

Shaped by books and loss, he argued against the temptations of power

Best of Books 2018: Poetry

A biography of water, the Gita refreshed and a record of sounds

Best of Books 2018: Crime Fiction

Unreliable narrators, bear poachers, undercover Russian agents and much more

I’m Not a Traitor

A lot can be gained in translation

Henry Eliot: ‘There is something comforting about the classics when you feel uncertain about your own time’

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

The Anonymity of Greatness

The Urdu novelist who has slipped out of the pantheon

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

The Nobel laureate’s legacy has much to say to charges of amnesia about colonialism

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