35 years after The Satanic Verses controversy, newly unearthed letters reveal some uncomfortable truths
Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world ...
Xi arrives in Lima for state visit to Peru, APEC meeting
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Lima Thursday for a state visit to Peru and the 31st APEC Economic Leaders Meeting ...
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Reading the classics should be a joy, not a duty
Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...
India's ban on Salman Rushdie's novel may end
Missing paperwork could see an end to the decades-long ban of Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses in his native India more ...
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British writer Harvey wins Booker Prize
Britain’s Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel ‘Orbital’, a story about a single day aboard the ...
Column | The ban order on Salman Rushdie’s book might have gone missing, but its implications live on
St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost things, helps the author navigate through misplaced items and a lost government order.
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British writer Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story Orbital
LONDON: Britain’s Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a story about a single day aboard the ...
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy
Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, ...
Letters to the Editor: 'Corpse flowers' with foul smell attract visitors in Australia
This flower entices plant lovers not with a delightful smell but with its rotting, foul odour. Popularly known as ‘corpse ...