Let’s see how many people we can get on board to promote reading habits among children. With this aim, the...
Month: February 2014
The appearance of the expression ‘global novel’ is recent and strange, said Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. He was...
A new breed of writers in Hindi, many of them IIT-IIM graduates, are seeking to become the agents of a...
Indian filmmaker Mira Nair is basking in the warmth of the welcome given to her in this eastern Pakistani city, saying the...
When Salman Rushdie was a child, his father shared with him the great "wonder tales" of the East — "told...
Monideepa Sahu, fiction editor of Kitaab, interviews Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, the author of The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (Aleph) Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar...
This region has its fair share of book fairs. Beirut itself hosts at least three of them – for Francophone,...
Does reading literature make you more moral? Scholars speaking at a Center for Ethics in Society event say the answer...
Mai Jia, a top-selling Chinese espionage novelist and former soldier, has been writing about secrets for years. In his half-dozen...
Paul French in the LARB Blog Jack London’s time as a war correspondent in Asia has rather slipped from his...
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