Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. We are heading into the literature festival season with Jaipur Literature Festival announcing its programme for 2026. To be held between ...

We asked our room of professional readers + writers for the best books they read this year. Settle in for your next read (or ...

Smith recently sat down with HoopsHype to discuss his new book, Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in ...

A-list celebrity memoirs for 2026 will come from Hollywood icons Liza Minnelli and Sylvester Stallone, and Scottish actor Tom ...

KPBS Staff picks of the most compelling books of 2025 and a few 2024 holdovers that demanded a spot on our list.

Independent publishers in India prioritise editorial conviction over market-driven celebrity and scale.Small presses play a ...

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.

While society labels them as antisocial misfits, history's greatest minds from Einstein to Virginia Woolf have known a secret ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...