English Literature

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980), a remarkable film lyricist, was also an iconic literary poet. Surinder Deol paints a sensitive portrait that reveals a...

Evocative and crisp, Joginder Paul’s Urdu stories from Dharti ka Kaal are translated into English in land lust. His stories offer poignant glimpses...

The Oxford history of the novel in english is a volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose ...

A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines a beautiful, impetuous painter wh...

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science,...

The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond with words, with the hist...

This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, ...

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker and bringing to an end a half century ...

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It c...

This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the ...

Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why ...

As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousne...

Toby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he takes an unexpected new tack and hi...

This book brings you a wealth of stories, in words and images, from a part of India known as the Northeast, a term that is widely contest for the w...

“Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911 and listens. ” Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk...

Sahajanand Saraswati (1889–1950) was a man of many parts. Monk, scholar, freedom fighter and leader of the peasant movement, he made an impact in a...

In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, the Flying Mountai...

The urban theatre which emerged under Anglo-European and local influences in colonial metropolises such as Calcutta and Bombay around the mid-ninet...

This volume makes significant and fresh contributions to fields of comparative literature and translation which are assuming increasing importance ...

Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can th...

Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn’t be better—a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends—un...

What are the stages in the life of a butterfly? If you trap a caterpillar in a box, will it blossom into a butterfly? When discrimination and viole...

This book provides a fresh English translation of a selection of Allama Iqbal's Urdu and Persian poetry in a form that remains faithful to that of ...

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the...

Ismat Chughtai-one of the most provocative and rebellious writers in Urdu-wrote voluminously until she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 19...

At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fuhmann’s magnum opus a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It ...

Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar’s novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, i...

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light...

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Ritwik Ghatak perhaps remains the most celebrated auteur of Partition narratives—not only has he completed eight masterly feature films before his ...

Is a woman’s body her own? How far does her freedom extend? What can she do when social traditions, laws of the land and above all, prejudices of i...

Matira Manisha (‘The Man of the Soil’) is one of those uncommon artistic creations which prove that good art does not have to be convoluted or obsc...

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp—a ...

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between...

For years, Nepal was ravaged by a civil war. On one side were the King and the democratically elected government, on the other side were brutal Mao...

‘[T]his is no fiction. I have scars on my body and my soul to prove this.’ Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early ...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

Toby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always ta...

Love is divine, love is pristine. Love could be agony, love could be bliss. It’s God’s wonderful gift. All are not ordained to be smitten by the lo...

Originally published in Italian in 1965, a test of powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the tim...

While much work has been done on exploring the communal tensions of the Independence era and the lode of ‘partition stories’ has been sufficiently ...

Gender, Space and Creative Imagination is about contemporary women’s writing in India and its experiential, ideological and representational topogr...

Hailed by the poet Paul eluard as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ upon its first appearance in 1946, René char’s hypnos is both a remarkable work of lite...

Ashapurna Devi, one of the foremost Indian women writers, was born in colonial Bengal in 1909. She lived until 1995, witnessing the transitions and...

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with...

Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South As...

Anthologies provide ready, expansive insights into specific forms of literature. In the genre of poetry, nuptial poetry is singularly under-represe...

The Postcolonial Mind: Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari