Lhendup G Bhutia
The autobiographical voice of America’s leading poet wins her the Nobel Prize
A swift tour of India’s memorable cultural trends in literature and movies
Several high-profile adaptations of literary fiction prove that big books can make for fine viewing
Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories
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
Alexander Pushkin used quarantine to write a few of his greatest works
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