GauZ: "If you don't have style, don't write"

India, June 16 -- In an interview with the Booker Foundation in 2023, you mention making notes while working as a security guard. How did you transform that into Standing Heavy? It was a lazy experie... Read More

Report: The White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair

India, June 12 -- The third edition of the White Owl Literature Festival and Book Fair was held in Dimapur at Zone Niathu by The Park, from 5 to 7 February. For this correspondent, who has never been ... Read More

Addie E Citchens: "Boys are handed power while girls are handed shame"

India, June 1 -- How did you structure the novel, with its notes from the Minister's Desk, two dominant voices, and interludes? I just let the story come out like it wanted, refusing to make it bend ... Read More

Review: Heart the Lover by Lily King

India, May 29 -- The multi-award-winning American novelist Lily King (63), who was nominated for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is also on the shortlist of this year's Women's Prize for Fict... Read More

'The urge to write never really left me'

India, May 23 -- 1In 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. Tell us wh... Read More

Review: Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

India, May 8 -- This is from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (1984): "We are here for this - to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to stand the blows and hand them out. We must never feel disarme... Read More

'It is in the nature of art to be problematic'

India, May 2 -- 1Your novel, The Director (2025), is divided into three parts - Outside, Inside, and After - mimicking the process of movie-making: a film's inception, its production and its afterlife... Read More

Daniel Kehlmann: "It is the nature of art to be problematic"

India, May 2 -- The book is divided into three parts - Outside, Inside, and After, mimicking the process of moviemaking: a movie's inception, its production and afterlife. Was that intentional? Putti... Read More

'I absorbed vast amounts of shame as a child'

India, April 11 -- 1Your characters feel the ripple effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Can you tell us how you view the elasticity of time, and how understanding is shaped in hindsight, with such... Read More

Sheena Kalayil: "We need to acknowledge our successes with humility"

India, April 10 -- One of the three central characters in your book is Lolita Devi. Why did you use that name and how has Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita influenced your understanding of subverting readers'... Read More

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