Last Updated: Monday, January 17, 2011, 11:23
Kate Taylor`s portrait of honor and deception in her new book is alluring.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 13:37
Diplomat-author Navtej Sarna has always felt a creative kinship with exiles.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 13:33
Rehman Ali Rehman, a rickshaw puller in Uttar Pradesh`s Basti district, doesn`t mind if has to wait long for a customer. He uses the time to scribble on pieces of paper - poems for his forthcoming book.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 09:17
Pakistani writer Naqvi says that he addresses his anxieties by writing.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 12:34
Take off your shoes and relax: Oscar winner Sissy Spacek has a few stories to tell. Hyperion announced Friday that its publishing her memoir, which is tentatively called ‘Barefoot Stories.’ The book is scheduled to come out next year.
Last Updated: Friday, January 14, 2011, 12:53
Pakistan may have little hope for peace with India but a settlement with New Delhi will help remove the jihad culture ravaging the country, writes veteran journalist M J Akbar in his new book.
Last Updated: Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:15
Case closed: An unpublished Dashiell Hammett story is coming out decades after his death.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 17:32
Comic book superhero Captain America has faced his biggest foe yet – suicide.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 13:48
Noted British non-fiction writer Patrick French says his research into the genetics of the Indian caste system showed "there were traces of Dravidian genes" in Kashmiris because people from far south have settled there in the last 3,000 years.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 13:43
For the 11th time in a row, historian Ramachandra Guha`s ‘Makers of Modern India’ dominates the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week. ‘The Sunset Club’ by Khushwant Singh continues to lead the fiction set for the seventh week.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 10:20
New York Times editorial writer and longtime journalist Eduardo Porter offers an engaging rumination proving the adage that everything has its price. And he means everything: work, women, even faith and the future.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 18:03
When author Tom Franklin submitted the first 80 pages of his new novel, "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter," to his literary agent, he got an alarming response.