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Book To Screen: Project Hail Mary

India, April 13 -- It is generally advisable to lower expectations when a beloved book is adapted into a big-budget feature film. There's only so much of a dense, deeply internal reading experience th... Read More


Book to Screen: The Housemaid

India, March 30 -- The best thing about Paul Feig's The Housemaid, adapted from Freida McFadden's novel of the same name, is Amanda Seyfried. Her performance as Nina Winchester, a housewife with a mur... Read More


Omar Musa: "We're haunted by the ghosts of the past"

India, March 18 -- Fierceland is deeply concerned with inheritance of land, damage, and silence. What did writing this novel teach you about the kinds of inheritances we don't choose but still live wi... Read More


Review: The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

India, March 5 -- Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron may be retired - but in Richard Osman's The Impossible Fortune, relaxing is the last thing on their minds. This time, The Thursday Murder Club is fa... Read More


"You write what you fear"

India, Feb. 21 -- 1Mongrel feels like a novel written from the body as much as from the mind. Did it begin as a story you consciously wanted to tell? The story came about because, as an actor, I wasn'... Read More


Hanako Footman: "You write what you fear"

India, Feb. 21 -- Mongrel feels like a novel written from the body as much as from the mind. Did it begin as a story you consciously wanted to tell? The story came about because, as an actor, I wasn'... Read More


Report: Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

India, Jan. 30 -- I missed the start of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, held from 29 October to 2 November 2025, thanks to an impromptu plan with fellow speakers. While the crowds were walking in... Read More


Harini Nagendra: "I didn't come up with the character; she came to me"

India, Jan. 22 -- You've been working on Kaveri, the main character of the Bangalore Detectives Club series, for over 15 years. How did Kaveri first come into your mind? Much longer than 15 years, ac... Read More