literature
Louise Glück: Austere Notes
Lhendup G Bhutia
The autobiographical voice of America’s leading poet wins her the Nobel Prize
Who Exactly is the ‘Other’?
A swift tour of India’s memorable cultural trends in literature and movies
Reading and Seeing
Several high-profile adaptations of literary fiction prove that big books can make for fine viewing
The Drawing Room Writer
Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories
Literature in the time of Covid-19
One of the few unintended positives in the overwhelming gloom has been the space writers and thinkers have been granted to become enormously productive and focused
Love and Literature in the Time of Cholera
Alexander Pushkin used quarantine to write a few of his greatest works
An Idea Between the Covers
America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade
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