Literature

Around four in the afternoon, when the after-school crowd has not yet arrived and the researchers have already reserved their

Walk into any independent bookshop on a Saturday afternoon and there’s a decent chance you’ll overhear it: someone leaning toward

The literary internet erupts for about a week before moving on to something else when a critic occasionally sits down

A book club meets on a Tuesday, wine gets poured, and within fifteen minutes the conversation has already drifted to

Every few years, there is a variation of this debate that is typically started by a musician or tech entrepreneur

There’s a particular kind of book that doesn’t so much get reviewed as it gets survived by the culture around

Something changes in a book between the second and third readings. Not the storyline. Not the characters. The reader has

Someone is most likely finishing a chapter on a packed train somewhere in New Delhi right now. The scene is