One of my first encounters with the green monster of jealousy was when I read Heidi by Johanna Spyri, born this month in 1827. She lived on the mountains with her grandfather and his Saint B...

In times fraught with so much discussion on racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter protests, Robinson’s theme is very relevant. The question of racial inequity is, however, somehow smothere...

The gladiatorial games, meanwhile, made killing delightful public entertainment. All these would have moulded the citizens’ ideas of right and wrong and their perceptions of deliberate killing. ...

The book highlights the importance of technology ushering in a more sustainable transition, and even as Porritt warns against any naïve techno-fixes, his emphasis on technological solutions side-...

Questions such as these have a purgatorial quality. In the space between life and death, there is a moment of truth as there must be between Inferno and Paradiso. And as Dante had Virgil to guide him ...

Faleiro masterfully navigates this terrain herself by inviting the reader to observe the politics, institutions and emotional bonds that fashion the girls’ lives; she lets us piece together &lsq...

Courtesan, escort, lady of the night — sex workers have fascinated writers and artists for centuries. Shrouded in mystery and prejudice, the working girl upended Christian notions of chaste fema...

Annotations have traditionally been no more than mere footnotes in the history of fiction, providing information that supplements the main story. That is why when James Joyce’s Finnegans Wa...

This apart, the pitfalls of spying is focused upon through the Frankenstein-like creator and handler of terrorists, ‘Colonel’ Imam, who dies at the hands of the monster he created; the cha...

The drives of the novel flowing out of the intersection of horror and young adult fiction, to name two of the obvious sub-genres, typically blur the characters, churn the buried memories, and propel t...