2+ hour, 55+ min ago  (312+ words) | Hindustan Times Hindustan Times There is a striking irony at the heart of Caro Claire Burke's debut novel, Yesteryear It's protagonist Natalie Heller Mills builds a lucrative online career romanticising traditional womanhood, presenting domestic life through carefully composed images of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (479+ words) | Hindustan Times Hindustan Times The moment you attach the tag "queer" to a romance novel, readers expect two things "That it will be a coming out story, and a tale of going through an identity crisis," says Rahul Singh, 29, Kolkata-based…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (589+ words) What forms can rebellion take on a fast-sinking desolate island? Inspired by Banishanta, a real-life "floating" brothel settlement in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam's new novel, Uprising (Penguin Random House), is set on a fictional strip of land rapidly being reclaimed by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (396+ words) Don't miss our list of May's best fiction. Read the article By Maria Tatar | Princeton In many cultures, the spider's ability to weave threads is understood as a symbol of divine, elemental power. Review by Brandy Schillace By Eyck Freymann…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (865+ words) Goodness leaps out at you in the unlikeliest places, in Ann Patchett's books. Bel Canto (2001), which won the Women's Prize (then called the Orange Prize for Fiction) and the PEN/Faulkner Award, is about an unlikely friendship between a band…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (997+ words) In an interview you noted that as a 62-year-old, you thought your moment had passed. But here you are, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for your debut novel. Please share the significance of this journey for writers who…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (370+ words) | Hindustan Times Hindustan Times Listicle: 10 authors who wrote under a different name These writers borrowed names from cats, bulldogs and grandmums to pass off as whole other people. Did they fool you too? Freida Mc Fadden (But really, Dr Sara…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (618+ words) Parsipur's Women Without Men or Zan'n bid'n-i mard'n was banned in Iran the same year it was published. Parsipur, who wrote it, had already served four years in prison by then, in part because of this book. She eventually left…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (203+ words) Held to ransom by fear, shame, and self-doubt Do you feel emotionally numb or dangerously on edge, without really knowing why? Do you tend to get stuck in endless loops of damaging memories? Or find yourself unable to leave people…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (425+ words) Tell us about the genesis of this short story collection. Your stories traverse different geographies. Do you have personal affinities with these places? The dread of separation often permeates these stories " the dread of a mother's separation from her son…...