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Neither the dropping of the bombs nor the aftermath is shown in Oppenheimer. But it is Japanese art and media that provide an audit of the bombs devastation

For the past 25 years, Kamila Shamsie has been working on a vast scale. There's a thrill that comes with the grand sweep...

She says a novel has a number of starting points, and for a long time she was been interested in the idea of childhood friendships and how they are so different. "In 2016, in America there was Trump and in Britain, Brexit. I started ...

Her

Her

The beloved writer of the Wolf Hall trilogy and Beyond Black has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

A scholar of environmental studies traces the linkages between Pakistani women’s creative works and eco-feminism

The writers discuss problems of representation, class, the culture wars and how fiction is a great way to ask difficult questions

Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie took a stand against Israel in 2019 by saying that she was a supporter of the BDS or Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement for which she was stripped of a literary prize. Now Sally Rooney, the author of Normal People, has joined the list after Shamsie, of writers who have taken a position. Rooney declined to have translations of her latest work published in Hebrew. Her new novel is Beautiful World, Where are You. The Irish writer turned down an Israeli publisher...