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’ ...

When B.R. Myers' essay "A Reader's Manifesto" was published last year in The Atlantic Monthly, intelligentsia-baiting newspaper editors' eyes lit up and book critics fell stonily silent. Myers—an ...

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, ...

When someone says they love stories, we imagine their head buried in a book or them cuddled up in a blanket watching a blockbuster. Seldom do we think of the stories that hide beneath the pixels of ...

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 ...