By Kohinoor Dasgupta The Bengali-language non-fiction book  Puratani/Gyanodanandini Devi , now in its fifth reprint, was published in...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Han Kang’s memorable novel about the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 was published in Korean as The Boy Is Coming  in...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Greek Lessons is a 2011 novel by Han Kang, the Korean author who is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta When South Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, international newspaper reports made...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta The long life of the Merchant Ivory adaptation of A Room with a View  (1986) makes one unsure about the historical...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (The Early Years) is a novel that connects the Nobel Prize-winning...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris  was published in 1935, when she was thirty-six. It is an energetic and...

A beautiful young woman reading a letter at the foot of an unlikely obelisk is the beginning of neither a romance nor a comedy.

Who is he when he is "Philip de Vries”? Not the real Friso?

On the mainland, maybe on this very day, dark and wintry, Olai’s father Johannes feels unusually vigorous.

There are no sanctuaries, and no one is safe around the Cathedral where John Jasper leads the choir.

If you think the rest of the novel is about making an identification and thus drawing retribution from the government, you would be wrong.

However, we eventually find out that the painting is no different from Asle's powerful abstract work.

He had looked ahead to this day and thrown away nothing!

If he pulled off the steal, he would be doing posterity a favor, Figueras rationalizes to Berenice later.

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Snow , by Orhan Pamuk, was originally published in Turkey as Kar by İletişm, Istanbul in 2002. It was a national...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta When published in 1905, Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard may well have been a page-turner. In 2023, when more than...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Luke Russert tells a difficult story through his travel diary, Look For Me There/ Grieving My Father, Finding...

Fleetingly, I missed enfant terrible OKB wearing Aviator shades.

Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oë died on March 3, 2023. He was eighty-eight years old. Oë tasted literary success when he was...