Callenbach, ‘Ecotopia’ author, di...
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar who wrote the novel "Ecotopia," a 1975 underground classic that inspired generations of environmentalists and readers yearning for an ecologically sustainabl...
Dickens parted with favourite book to ward of...
It is a well known belief that if you receive a knife as a gift, you must ‘pay back’ ...
Cheryl Cole to release autobiography
Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole is planning to release her autobiography, in which she will discuss her broken marriage to soccer star Ashley Cole.
The Bard and the Censor
The Bard… “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Certainly Ben Jonson’s tribute is now as ...
Authors reveal favourite Shakespeare quotes
Popularly known as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon", English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is turning 448 on his birthday on 23rd April, this year.
Will the GenNext care for Shakespeare?
Shakespeare's appeal is universal, the stories transcend language and nationalities. However more than 400 years after Shakespeares's birth, will the iPad generation read his works in the days to come...
Tolkien, Dickens’ grandsons team up for boo...
A grandson of famous author JRR Tolkien and a descendant of Charles Dickens will be teaming up for two new fantasy books for children.
JK Rowling’s adult novel due in Sept
Harry Potter junkies can look forward to starting afresh as JK Rowling finally discloses details about her much-awaited foray ...
Rushdie writes memoir about time in hiding
Salman Rushdie has come out with a memoir based on the time he spent hiding while under a fatwa in 1989. Rushdie was accused by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini of insulting the prophet Mohammed in h...
Herman Wouk out with novel at 96
At age 96, Herman Wouk is ready for a fresh start. The author of “The Caine Mutiny,” “The Winds ...
Israel bars entry to Guenter Grass over poem
Israel has declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that ...
Of ‘demagoguery’ & democracy
Writer, activist & publisher Tariq Ali, in town this week, is forthright in his views on everything from Kashmir to maoists and the Anna Hazare movement.
Looking back at all that anger
A hundred years after August Strindberg's death, the challenge for the contemporary theatre director is to ensure that in staging Strindberg, that outrage and candour does not end up lying interred wi...
What’s in Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘...
A page from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, which had been previously unseen, shows that even geniuses have to write ...
Exploring feminist poetry of Kamala Das
Prose has for long edged poetry to the margins of contemporary Indian literature. It is only natural that the ...
Book explores witch trials in 1890s
When a prostitute is found stabbed through with a pitchfork in a ritualised death said to be a way ...
‘Macho’ Hemingway’s letters...
Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn’t part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that ...
Russell Brand to write third autobiography
Russell Brand is penning ‘Booky Wook 3’, his third autobiography in five years. Brand’s first autobiography ‘My Booky Wook’ was released in 2007 to favourable reviews.
Witherspoon to adapt popular book series
Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon and her production partner have snapped up the film rights to the much-hyped children's book series Pennyroyal's Princess Boot Camp.
New book warns of looming Pakistan anarchy
A Pakistani journalist and best-selling author cautions that Pakistan is heading towards anarchy in his new book that offers solutions for his country's frayed ties with the United States and how U.S....
A festival with a difference
Over April 21 and 22, Mumbai hosted its first literary festival for children. Held in the sprawling grounds of St Anthony’s School in Chembur in the city’s eastern suburbs, it was a wonderful occasion, filled with writing workshops, storytelling sessions, panel discussions, and much more. It was very heartening to...
Funny and furiousAfter the disappointment of his last book, The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq – called, among other things, “France’s greatest literary export” – returns to his audacious, sardonic self in his new novel, The Map and the Territory. While a lot is made of Houellebecq’s nihilism and despair (Elementary Particles,...
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