The government has issued a gazette certifying Kazi Nazrul Islam formally as the national poet of Bangladesh. There was no ...

Across more than five decades and three dozen books, Ms. Giovanni wrote poetry and prose that bridged the public ... is nefertiti / the tears from my birth pains / created the nile / I am a ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem ... it was also a potential death knoll for one’s career in the field of letters.

The nature of interaction in a troubled space is at the heart of Gaëlle Bélem ’s absorbing There’s a Monster Behind the Door, ...

We listen back to an interview we recorded with Giovanni in 2014 after the release of “Chasing Utopia,” a collection of poetry and prose that ... you’ll freeze to death.

MT’s last public speech earlier this year, attacking the personality cult of Pinarayi Vijayan, had Kerala’s ruling Marxists ...

The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.

A curated list of notable upcoming Indian books spanning memoirs, fiction, history, and biographies, offering insights into ...

As the year draws to a close, The News on Sunday invites writers and readers to share the books that captivated their hearts ...

From poems to prose The 53-year-old Han Kang hails from ... who died a mere two hours after birth. This book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit was shortlisted for ...

From a submarine survival adventure during World War II to an exploration of the dark side of a Catholic convent on the Irish ...