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The charges against the writer Arundhati Roy herald a dark era.

What will tomorrow bring in the age of COVID-19? There is so much uncertainty. Arundhati Roy sees an opportunity. She writes, “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine…

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Writer Arundhati Roy has been awarded the 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, the Charles Veillon Foundation has announced.

Arundhati Roy’s 1997 novel was a groundbreaking bestseller that solidified her as an important voice on the global stage. Here are seven facts you should know.

The Summer 2021 issue features interviews with Arundhati Roy and Roz Chast, the first English translation of a monologue by Vladimir Nabokov, and much more.

  After her first novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati Roy did not publish another for twenty years, when The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was released in 2017. The intervening decades were nonetheless filled with writing: essays on dams, displacement, and democracy, which appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Outlook, Frontline, and the Guardian, and were collected in volumes that quickly came to outnumber the novels. Most of these essays were compiled in 2019 in My...

The journalist on coffee, books, more books, a swim in the evening and supper with mum ‘Most broadcast news is not constructive, it’s endless noise’: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images ‘Most broadcast news is not constructive, it’s endless noise’: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Sun 25 Apr 2021 01.45 EDT Sunday morning? I make a pot of coffee when I wake at 6am, then get back into bed and spend two hours reading. I started d...