Besides English, the awards are also being given to Hindi language books. The literature festival will be held in Varanasi ...

Kashmir with all its weighty scenery is to the web series what the mountain range is in Ray’s 1962 film Kanchenjungha, after a manner. Sandip says, “Towards the end of the film, Kanchenjunga, the ...

Ode to a legend A much-loved bookstore in Kolkata celebrates Satyajit Ray’s diverse genius annually with a special calendar. The 2025 edition, curated by his filmmaker son Sandip Ray ...

Guidebooks can be wonderful resources for helping travelers navigate destinations. But the best travel books can also inspire journeys. Fiction or nonfiction, there’s no shortage of books with a ...

American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking. “Fahrenheit 451 ...

A long, long time ago, in an age before literature festivals, I met a man who wrote books. I was just a wide-eyed schoolboy in Kolkata and I don’t recall anything the portly pink-faced man with ...

Here are the most exciting books we're most looking forward to sharing in 2025 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...