Books and Literature

Why most New Year intentions fail – and what actually works instead

The Odyssey: What to read before Christopher Nolan brings Homer to the big screen

The modern Sisyphus: Breathing smog and pushing boulders

Why Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian’s ‘A Sixth of Humanity’ presents a flawed narrative of India’s developmentSubscriber Only

How Krupa Ge’s Burns Boy explores family, gender and invisible scarsSubscriber Only

Chasing (a) Conjecture: Chandrashekhar Khare on proof, persistence, and poetry of mathematics

In Sharankumar Limbale’s ‘Sanatan’, Caste is the only ‘eternal’ truth

Resolved, again: On Dickens, Woolf, and the New Year resolution to do better

Place by Ananya Vajpeyi and the art of understanding cities

‘Today, we have limitless greed of oligarchs, dictators turning Earth into wasteland’: Anuradha Roy

Crime-fiction roundup 2025: From Richard Osman to Peter Swanson, the thrills, chills, and plot twists that stood out this year

Dare not look away: The 5 best horror books of 2025

Our subconscious, Googled: Cambridge psychologist decodes meaning of Words of the Year, 2025

Domestic noir to whodunits: 5 exciting thrillers to look forward to in 2026

Aftertaste | Caste: The long shadow we pretend not to see

2025 in Books: What Arvind Subramanian, Naseeruddin Shah, Shashi Tharoor recommendSubscriber Only

Bill Gates’ 2025 reading recommendations: 5 books he says are worth your time

The Jashn-e-Rekhta conundrum: Can a cultural festival scale without losing its soul

182 years on, why the ghosts of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol refuse to rest

‘Without Vajpayee, there would be no Modi’: How former PM legitimised the Hindu Right

In an upside down world, these women mystics are right side up

Best books on environment and climate change 2025: Five books that ask what it means to live on a damaged planet

Best books of 2025: From modern love and migration to money and identity, our top picks

Could 1929 happen again? Andrew Ross Sorkin’s gripping account of the time Wall Street collapsed