7+ hour, 10+ min ago  (443+ words) Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Ghosts of Indian Small Towns: A Journey Through Time, Ruskin Bond, published by" Aleph Book Company. AS THE TRAINS GO BY The importance of a town can be defined by its institutions. If…...

13+ hour, 44+ min ago  (117+ words) DR. WAYNE STEIN Ted Talk Speaker, Amazon Author, Asian Gothic Scholar; Yoga Certified, Black Belts. Writer Program Admin, Writing Center Director, Cancer Survivor, Korean Born, Raised in Japan and Italy, grew up In Los Angeles. " Boom Bang Bleeding Blood Luminous…...

18+ hour, 58+ min ago  (560+ words) BLUEFIELD, W. Va. (WVVA) - Reading can open windows to anyone's world and a longtime Mercer County educator is doing just that for adult readers. On May 12, 2026 -- Robin Beamer Dalton published her first book. The now retired 33-year educator of library sciences…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (70+ words) The Bookseller Dead Ink Books snares folk-horror anthology, Beasts of England Register to read for FREE. Serious about the book trade? Want full access? Subscribe from just "3. 65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (449+ words) MERIDIAN " For Mark Rickerby, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States looks a lot like remembering the 200th anniversary. In 1976, Rickerby was in seventh grade, and the world was coming off of the Montreal Summer Olympics. "Everything you got, like every…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (248+ words) The ecological collapse is overwhelming, but observing something alive can counter it: Neha Sinha Pati Patni Aur Woh Do review: Comedy of errors struggles to raise the laughs How slow counting of votes in Bengal helped BJP win a lost…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (103+ words) Every story in the collection I got from Pilgrims Book House in Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur, are ideas you are familiar with but don't give much thought to on a daily basis. They shed light on mental illness, gender disparity, parenthood and…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (202+ words) On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women's histories....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (518+ words) Colm T'ib'n divides his life between his native Ireland, the Upper West Side in New York (with a view of Riverside Park), and Los Angeles, where he lives with his partner. He used to joke that home was where his…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (713+ words) In Hindu epics, family is never just background. It is the emotional core of the story. Kings make impossible choices because of their children. Mothers carry grief, faith, sacrifice, and fierce devotion in the same breath. Children, in turn, grow…...