The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff: Is ‘The Testaments’ finally happening? Here’s what we knowThe Testaments explores the life in Gilead fifteen years after the events that defined The Handmaid’s Tale. The story unfolds through the p...
01 Nov, 2024, 10.45 PM IST
Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI materialAmazon has introduced new regulations requiring authors to disclose if their books contain artificial intelligence (AI) material before sel...
09 Sep, 2023, 03.24 PM IST
‘AI owes its existence to our writings’: 8,000 writers demand compensation from tech companies for use of copyrighted materialThe letter was penned by The Authors Guild, a union consisting of 12,000 members. It was addressed to six CEOs, including Meta boss Mark Zu...
20 Jul, 2023, 07.35 PM IST
Alan Garner, NoViolet Bulawayo & more: Booker Prize unveils 2022 shortlist including oldest finalist everThe shortlist saw an equal split of men and women battling for the prize which can provide a career-changing boost.
07 Sep, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
'Unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' auctioned for $130,000The fireproof book was a joint project by PEN, Atwood, Penguin Random House and two companies based in Toronto.
08 Jun, 2022, 07.19 PM IST
Burn-proof edition of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' up for auction in New YorkIn the video, the author can be seen trying to incinerate her classic novel using a flamethrower.
24 May, 2022, 06.45 PM IST
Margaret Atwood writes foreword for late partner Graeme Gibson's latest, says 'every bird was a revelation to him'Gibson, who died in 2019 at age 85, was known well beyond the world of books.
01 Apr, 2021, 05.39 PM IST
Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng to collaborate on the first novel about the pandemicThe story is set on a Manhattan rooftop in 2020 as the virus spreads worldwide.
19 Mar, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
Empty arenas, plexiglass protection for authors: How book fairs are held in post-Covid worldMore than 4,400 exhibitors from over 100 countries have registered to take part virtually.
16 Oct, 2020, 05.52 PM IST
'The Handmaid's Tale' writer Margaret Atwood honoured with Dayton Literary Peace PrizeThe Dayton lifetime achievement award carries a $10,000 prize.
14 Sep, 2020, 03.39 PM IST
Parents raise objections to 'Handmaid's Tale', 'Harry Potter' due to vulgarity, themes of sorceryStories with gay and transgender themes also drew a lot of criticism.
21 Apr, 2020, 06.05 PM IST
Books helped Lisa Ray fight with cancer; Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood healed the actorFor the actor, books are borderless and transcendental.
25 Jan, 2020, 04.15 PM IST
Superstorms evoke the right frisson of fear, but will we change our ways?Literature, cinema and TV, naturally, cannot remain unaffected by the awe-inspiring force of nature called ‘super storms’, given their unpr...
12 Oct, 2018, 11.36 PM IST
Can't write 'Mills and Boons' or fantasy books: Margaret Atwood at Jaipur Literature FestivalThe Man Booker Prize winning author is known for foraying into less explored genres of historical, speculative and dystopian fiction.
24 Jan, 2016, 01.45 PM IST
There is no intolerance in Bollywood, says Kajol at Jaipur Lit FestChoosing to play down the intolerance debate in India, Kajol said there are no such dividing lines in Bollywood.
23 Jan, 2016, 01.58 PM IST
Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off, Margaret Atwood wows audienceAmid tight security at the Diggi Palace, the Canadian poet and novelist delivered the keynote address.
21 Jan, 2016, 03.45 PM IST
Neel Mukherjee and three other authors on UK literary prize long-listFour Indian-origin authors including the Kolkata-born Neel Mukherjee, who lost out on this year's Booker Prize, have been long-listed for a...
16 Dec, 2014, 05.15 PM IST