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Novelist Han Kang, delivers her first public speech after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature at the 18th Pony Chung Innovation Award ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, on October 17, 2024.

Korea through Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Han’s novel critiques Korean society and the violence that lies beneath its surface. This year’s Nobel Prize honours her statement of resistance.

A view of the facade with stucco figurines in a Chettinadu Chettiar house at Nattarasankottai, near Karaikudi in Sivaganga district.

If only the haveli walls could talk

In Vernacular Architecture of India, Tejinder S. Randhawa documents India’s architectural heritage, opening the windows into a storied past.

In this collection, Gautier becomes the Baudelaire of Puducherry misfits, recording the fetid smell of the flowers of evil in the gutters of the seaside town.

Dark nights in Puducherry

Ari Gautier brings out the seamy side of this seemingly pretty tourist town in his collection Nocturne Pondicherry.

Sandhya Deb Barma weaving risha.

Can Tripura’s forgotten fabric weave its way back?

Once worn by royalty and commoners alike, the risha tells a tale of tradition, artistry and changing times. A designer is on a mission to revive it.

Salman Rushdie displays his entry in the Golden Book in the city hall, Hamburg, Germany on May 13.

Knife by Salman Rushdie: Chronicle of a death foretold—and foiled

The book cuts through Rushdie’s many worlds of darkness and of light, bringing with it the sea of stories that will survive.

girl sits in a branch of tree with a cat during the daytime., digital art style, illustration painting

Forest of memories

Banana Yoshimoto’s The Premonition is about disturbing secrets at the heart of families and the possibility of negotiating with them to find closure.

India has several popular breeds of goat—Sirohi, Jamnapuri, Surti, Tellicherry, Beetal, Malabari, Barbari, Gujarati.

Goats can save us the trouble of stubble

Why burn stubble when you can get goats to chomp up the paddy stalks? This might be the most pantheistic solution yet.

The shimmering waters of Tom Lake in Michigan glitter with memories in Patchett’s novel.

Summer of love: Review of ‘Tom Lake’ by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett’s novel creates a chamber of literary echoes to take us back to a sweeter, gentler America of the past.

A heritage house in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia.

Labyrinth of mirrors: Review of ‘The House of Doors’ by Tan Twan Eng

The Booker longlisted novel wormholes into the twilight of the Empire in the East, opening the portals to mesmerising stories from a forgotten era.

“Untitled” by Babuji Shilpi, gouache, 1942. From the Collection of Darshana Shilpi Rouget and Ajit Shilpi

Imaging the freedom tree: Review of ‘Insurgency and the Artist’ by Vinay Lal

Vinay Lal sets himself this enormous task to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence.

Cover of Mansur

Master of beauty

Vikramajit Ram takes us inside the Mughal artist’s breathtaking paintings in this novella.

Saving Angelo da Fonseca

It validates his attempts to forge a hybrid art that was neither completely Western nor Indian.

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