Culture

All this month, we’ll read and discuss Van Pelt’s heartwarming debut, a hopeful tale set by the sea that reminds us to look for connection in the most unexpected places

In her latest work, ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age’, the Pulitzer Prize finalist maps the quiet chaos of living and writing in the age of AI

‘The White Lotus’-like murder mysteries. Domestic dramas with an undercurrent of danger. Spycraft with a side of sci-fi. Hotels you can’t check out of. Here’s our pick of this-can’t-end-well page-turners

The author of Goddess Complex on incomprehensible doorstoppers, a book so good it made her play hooky, and one “criminally under-read” novel

The ‘Luminous’ author on manga, reality vs dystopia, and building a world with robot siblings

Junko Takase’s ‘May You Have Delicious Meals’ is a workplace novel served with a side of peach tarts and okonomiyaki

This month’s releases have some serious range. Choose from sapphic vampires, reality-show nightmares to a delicious deep dive into queer food

All this month, we will read and discuss the Korean author’s debut novel—a dystopian sci-fi set in the future in a unified Korea where robots and humans coexist

In ‘Deviants’, author Santanu Bhattacharya, through the life and times of three gay men, looks at how India’s attitude towards queerness has changed over the years

Bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud has a novel cure for every type of literary and non-literary ailment

As the first woman director of AIIMS, Dr Sneh Bhargava has seen it all. Now, at 95, she tells it all in her new memoir

No more wading through chapters of meet-cutes and slow burns, today’s romance novels are fast, spicy, steamy, and hiding between cutesy cartoon covers