English Fiction

CBSE class 12th English Exam 2025 analysis: Students, teachers' reactions

CBSE class 12th English Exam 2025 analysis: Students and teachers share their early feedback on today's paper. Here's what they have to say

Updated On: 11 Mar 2025 | 11:12 PM IST

Whatever happened to light fiction?

O'Hara could type off a short story the way assistant editors used to type off editorials. Enjoyable writing. Making a simple point. And above all, short - and so well written

Updated On: 13 Dec 2021 | 11:38 PM IST

John le Carre: The maestro has left the field

If giving pleasure to hundreds of millions can be a yardstick for a worthwhile life, le Carre measured up perfectly

Updated On: 14 Dec 2020 | 10:23 AM IST

John Le Carre, best-selling author of cold war thrillers, dies at 89

Le Carre upended that notion with books that portrayed British intelligence operations as cesspools of ambiguity in which right and wrong are too close to call

Updated On: 14 Dec 2020 | 8:27 AM IST

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' author John le Carre dies of pneumonia at 89

Born David Cornwall, le Carre was born in England in 1931, and first worked in foreign Intelligence for the British Army while studying foreign languages abroad

Updated On: 14 Dec 2020 | 7:23 AM IST

The avatar benders

Avatar's malleability of spirit and usage is quite remarkable, given its divine connections and usage within the Indian religious and mythological framework

Updated On: 29 Aug 2020 | 1:34 AM IST

The adventures of Wyndham and Surrender-not

A few years ago, most pleasingly as it has turned out, have come the historical crime novels situated in India

Updated On: 14 Apr 2020 | 2:44 AM IST

As reality becomes surreal...

The fear is not only about the virus but also how humans respond to the challenge

Updated On: 21 Mar 2020 | 12:54 AM IST

Female TV comics brandish fantastic weapons: bravery, wit, self-deprecation

McEnany and Bamford, slowed by bad periods, have earned their big moments

Updated On: 29 Feb 2020 | 12:03 AM IST

The short and the long of it

How many stories should make up a collection?

Updated On: 20 Aug 2019 | 1:25 AM IST

Small-town fiction in South India: We are not in Malgudi anymore

Pranab Bardhan selects three books to explain how the depiction in fiction today of life in small town India is far away from the ordered world of Malgudi

Updated On: 13 Jul 2019 | 11:25 PM IST

The cat who solved mysteries

I think people like Mrs Braun's books because they instinctively recognise something that is done well. The other is a much subtler one

Updated On: 17 Sep 2018 | 11:30 PM IST