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Author Nayantara Sahgal with Frida Kahlo, centre. Wikimedia Commons

Nayantara Sahgal’s stark choice for India: it’s freedom or fascism

As the author releases her new novel, 'The Fate of Butterflies', we question why the 91-year-old's words still resonate so deeply in a modern landscape

April 20, 2019

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz smiles in his Cairo home in1988 AFP

Championing the unsung, silent heroes of literature

Boyd Tonkin’s celebration of the translators who bring us books from around the world is a literary panorama of great work

September 27, 2018

Marryam Reshii, one of India’s most respected and loved food writers. Hachette

Marryam Reshii’s 'The Flavour of Spice' has an extra kick

We chat to the food writer about her book, which details the history and uses of spices

July 21, 2018

Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, the author of history-rich novels such as Pyramid Texts and his latest, The Book of Epiphanies. Marwan Naamani / AFP

Latest in a string of history-obsessed Arabic novels

Roving freely across a thousand years of Arab history, Gamal al-Ghitani's latest novel presents, like his previous works, a collage of the multifarious roots of Egyptian identity, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

June 8, 2013

Bombay, which is now Mumbai, before partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

Book review: Manto's daring short stories written during subcontinent partition

Saadat Manto's newly translated short stories exploring life in the cosmopolitan, laissez-faire Bombay of the 1930s and 1940s have enduring appeal, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

March 2, 2013

The juxtaposition of old and new, light and dark in Mumbai is the focus of many of this book's tales. Getty Images

Mumbai Noir: dark, eclectic tales about the city's thriving underworld

The stories in this noir anthology are as raw and diverse as the city of Mumbai itself, humming with the feel for the city's pulse and patter.

July 28, 2012

A street scene of Lahore in 1946, months before Partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

This Is Not That Dawn: India and Pakistan in the time of Partition

Yashpal's 1,100-page novel presents a searing narrative on a wound that has never quite healed.

April 20, 2012

Becoming Dickens / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst / Harvard University Press / Dh111

Becoming Dickens: 'from sketch writer to novelist'

In Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's latest book, one of a raft of new releases that mark this week's bicentenial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the author focuses on the literary giant's early career.

February 3, 2012

Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian paramilitary troops during a protest in the city of Srinagar. Rouf Bhat / AFP

The Kashmiri resistance movement comes of age

In his new book, Sanjay Kak examines the Kashmiri resistance movement, a widespread, centreless struggle for the right of self-determination that he believes has finally come of age.

December 8, 2011

Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro. Canongate

Beautiful Thing: The dark world of a Mumbai dance bar

Sonia Faleiro's non-fiction narrative unravels a society blighted in equal measures by decadence and poverty swirling around a teenaged Indian dancer.

August 19, 2011

Dancing Lessons For
The Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal
New York Review Books Classics
Dh65

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: take a deep breath

Told in one meandering sentence that offers readers no pause, stories and characters come sailing out of nowhere in Bohumil Hrabal's early and experimental work.

July 22, 2011

Saints and Sinners, Edna O'Brien, Faber & Faber, Dh78

Saints and Sinners: Ornate without being mannered

The Irish writer Edna O'Brien's new collection of short stories may be a late arrival in terms of the writer's age, but there has been no diminution in her sensibility.

May 20, 2011

Portraits of a Marriage by Sandor Marai; translated into English by George Szirtes (Knopf)

Portraits of a Marriage: One man, two wives, nine perspectives

The fifth novel by the late Sandor Marai to be translated into English in the past decade confirms his status as one of the great authors of the last century.

April 22, 2011

For Pamuk the roots of novel writing lie not in the story but rather in a richly imagined point of view. Murad Sezer / Reuters

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Learning to read, and write

Even without a story to tell, the novelist Orhan Pamuk injects a unique perspective into his analysis of the process of literature.

March 24, 2011

Patrick French: Your mother, your sister and all

Using the candid voices of its inhabitants, India: A Portrait reveals the nation's problems and possibilities.

March 4, 2011

Africa

Lebanese President Michel Aoun. Hussein Malla / pool via Reuters

Halfway into his presidency, Lebanon's Michel Aoun has failed to live up to expectations

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Khalifa Al Muhairi, who died on Tuesday, during his time as a Special Olympics ambassador when the Flame of Hope passed through Zabeel Park in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National

Legacy lives on for indomitable Emirati Khalifa Al Muhairi

Health

Umi-budo don, a traditional Okinawan seaweed dish, and dried asa-jiru seaweed. Getty Images

How the Okinawa diet could help you live to be 100

Food

The Business Bay area has a wide choice of budget-friendly, spacious two and three bedroom apartments, and a view of the Dubai canal from many of the towers there. Pawan Singh / The National

Homefront: 'What are the best places to live in Dubai for a new arrival?'

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