NO matter how strange it may sound, the fact is though Urdu was born in North India, its earliest written literary pieces, whether in prose or poetry, were created in South India. The word ‘Deccan’ ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Han, ...

THE history of Urdu prose in northern India begins with Karbal Katha. It was also known as Dah Majlis, a misnomer popularised by the fact that the book was read out during the congregations held in ...

Myers reports in this audacious broadside upon current American literary writing that, "at the 1999 National Book Awards ceremony, Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had to puzzle ...

When most people think of fantasy, they picture sprawling wars, fire-breathing dragons, and quests for crowns. But another branch of the genre has been quietly flourishing: lyrical fantasy. These are ...

Angela Jackson has been privately writing prose almost as long as the poetry for which she is renowned. Now she has published Where I Must Go, an autobiographical first novel 40 years in the making, ...