Book Reviews, Launches, Author Interviews, Excerpts

A file photo taken on September 26, 2018 shows US President Donald Trump displaying a letter he said he received the previous day from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

Bob Woodward's new Trump book to reveal letters with Kim Jong Un

AFP

The book, titled "Rage" and a follow-up to 2018's "Fear", is due out on September 15.

International

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s life story to be turned into comic book

Reuters The 24-page comic book, set to be released on September 16.

Books

Tishani Doshi’s lockdown reading

Soma Basu The way Tishani Doshi effortlessly transforms herself from a dancer to a writer to a poet, her reading also combines genres . In her Reading List for the week, she recommends a book on paintings, tales of war, and a play of poems.

Books

Abir Mukherjee: ‘Using the crime novel to discuss social issues is in our blood’

Mini Anthikad Chhibber The Scottish Bengali author, whose latest book features a classic locked room murder, says the detective with access to all levels of society is the perfect tool to study the human condition

Authors

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ author talks Vikings and wilderness

In Conversation Books

‘Desire crosses borders of different kinds’: Akhil Katyal

Books

From anklets to chains: Gitanjali Kolanad’s ‘Girl Made of Gold’ reviewed by Latha Anantharaman

Latha Anantharaman An evocative novel set at a time when devadasis still ruled over art, pleasure and love

Reviews

‘Bad News: Why we Fall for Fake News’ review: Fact and myth

Anuradha Raman A psychologist explores how much information the globe can process and be a smarter consumer of news

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Hercules lived here: Megasthenes’s ‘Indika’

Aakar Patel

Megasthenes’s ‘Indika’ is the best source for the India of 2,300 years ago despite some of its wild claims

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Historical Fiction From anklets to chains: Gitanjali Kolanad’s ‘Girl Made of Gold’ reviewed by Latha Anantharaman

Latha Anantharaman

An evocative novel set at a time when devadasis still ruled over art, pleasure and love

Reviews

society ‘Bad News: Why we Fall for Fake News’ review: Fact and myth

Anuradha Raman

A psychologist explores how much information the globe can process and be a smarter consumer of news

Transation Books

Transation The princess who loved the enemy: Review of ‘The Princess and the Political Agent’ by Binodini, trs Somi Roy

health Reviews

health ‘The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again’ review: Taking on an impossible virus

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Shruthi Dileep is one of the co-founders of Reading Room Co.

Life & Style

Bob Woodward's new Trump book to reveal letters with Kim Jong Un

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s life story to be turned into comic book

Tishani Doshi’s lockdown reading

Abir Mukherjee: ‘Using the crime novel to discuss social issues is in our blood’

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ author talks Vikings and wilderness

‘Desire crosses borders of different kinds’: Akhil Katyal

From anklets to chains: Gitanjali Kolanad’s ‘Girl Made of Gold’ reviewed by Latha Anantharaman

‘Bad News: Why we Fall for Fake News’ review: Fact and myth

Hercules lived here: Megasthenes’s ‘Indika’

Indian-origin author Avni Doshi on 2020 Booker Prize longlist

Reviews

Historical Fiction From anklets to chains: Gitanjali Kolanad’s ‘Girl Made of Gold’ reviewed by Latha Anantharaman

society ‘Bad News: Why we Fall for Fake News’ review: Fact and myth

Transation The princess who loved the enemy: Review of ‘The Princess and the Political Agent’ by Binodini, trs Somi Roy

health ‘The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again’ review: Taking on an impossible virus

Authors

Two friends launch Reading Room Co., an online publication platform for budding authors and poets

Abir Mukherjee: ‘Using the crime novel to discuss social issues is in our blood’

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ author talks Vikings and wilderness

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Bob Woodward's new Trump book to reveal letters with Kim Jong Un

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s life story to be turned into comic book

Two friends launch Reading Room Co., an online publication platform for budding authors and poets

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Abir Mukherjee: ‘Using the crime novel to discuss social issues is in our blood’

Tishani Doshi’s lockdown reading

Overseas support was crucial for Khalistan groups, says new book

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ author talks Vikings and wilderness

‘The Gated Republic: India’s Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions’ review: The deepening gaps in basic public services

Minerva’s owl flies at dusk: An assessment of Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s ‘Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950’