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Nilanjana Roy

Nilanjana Roy joined the Weekend FT as a columnist in July with a brief to write about life, literature, ideas and much more. She is the author of a fantasy duology, The Hundred Names of Darkness, and a collection of essays on reading, The Girl Who Ate Books. She has edited two anthologies, on Indian food writing and on Indian patriots, poets and prisoners, and has been a columnist for the Business Standard

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
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    The novelists exploring the wonders, terrors and untold possibilities of space

    Writers are responding to earthly anxieties but looking to the skies as a place of creative freedom — and a reflection of our planet’s fragile beauty

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  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    The great family saga is catnip for today’s readers — and writers too

    A new crop of novelists are breathing fresh life into a form as old as time

    Hundreds of photographs of family laid out on a table
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Are you reading in sync with the changing seasons?

    From summer hammock to winter fireside, books can chime with the seasonal rhythms lying dormant in our crowded lives

    A photo of a woman lying in a hammock reading and silhouetted against a sunset
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Gen Z are changing what it means to be a ‘reader’

    Panic about the demise of book reading is overblown — across genres, formats and devices, young people are finding and creating their own storytelling communities

    A young couple walk hand in hand past a stall where a young man looks at the books displayed on a table
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Graphic novels are the ideal response to authoritarian regimes

    Why the intimate and flexible genre is favoured by dissidents and political exiles

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  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    When reality enters the dream state

    Three books that bring real insight into how dreams create a window to our psyches and mirror the anxieties of our times

    Detail of a painting of a woman with long hair and her eyes closed, lying draped over the side of a bed with her arms overhead. She is wearing a long white dress
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Reading the WorldFiction
    The return of Jay Gatsby and other literary second lives

    A century on, F Scott Fitzgerald’s lovelorn millionaire is reimagined as a female influencer — the latest beloved character to be reshaped for new readers

    A handsome couple lie on a couch in a marble-floored room. He is in a white singlet, she wears a white satin robe
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Is it time to ditch the book blurb?

    Gushing praise often rewards connections over talent — but a good write-up can still help readers

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  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    In praise of the difficult book

    An easy read is like a nursery pudding — it brings comfort. But literature that is hard to digest should also be on every reader’s menu

  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Reading the WorldFiction
    A feast for readers: why a good anthology is a gateway to great writing

    The best of these literary collections are like an inviting home, filled with rooms you want to explore

    A crowded room where people look at shelves of books. One shelf is labelled ‘Indian Writing’
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    ReviewFiction
    We Do Not Part — Han Kang’s tale of a golden thread of friendship

    The Nobel laureate returns with a novel that again explores both human cruelty and our species’ capacity for tenderness

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  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
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    The return of the (original) celebrity philosophers

    The TikTok generation is rediscovering thinkers both ancient and modern who can help them make sense of the world

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  • Saturday, 18 January, 2025
    Reading the WorldBooks
    When poetry heralds a new presidential era

    Robert Frost improvised, Amanda Gorman became a breakout star — but there will be no inaugural poet for Trump’s victory rally

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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    My New Year’s resolution: make reading fun again

    I’ve set up a screen-free reading corner, with a ‘comfort stack’ of books that offer nothing but indulgence

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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
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    Will humanity get lost in translation?

    AI could instantly open up a huge range of books in different languages — but fiction really does require that human touch

    Photograph of a robotic hand flicking through a printed book
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Do audiobooks count as reading?

    We’re in the midst of a listening revolution — and a new debate over text versus voice

    Two female writers sit on a sofa during a panel session to promote a novel
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    To keep, or not to keep books . . . 

    That is the question that eventually faces all booklovers when the ever-growing stacks around the house threaten to fall

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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Why illness in fiction is going viral

    A renewed focus on pandemics, sanatoriums and troubled minds reveals much about the state of our times

    A first-person view of a hospital patient looking down at his legs in a hospital bed wearing pajamas
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Reading the WorldFiction
    Why Elsa Morante’s work still resonates today

    On the 50th anniversary of her bestselling novel La Storia, we remember a writer inextricably linked to Italian political history

    A woman stands by a framed drawing of a cat, with a shelf of books visible behind her
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Reading the WorldPoetry
    Give me Instapoetry — and something more substantial too

    Bite-sized verse has its place, but two new anthologies offer a chance for deeper engagement with poetic traditions

    A poet recites verse at a public poetry reading
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    In celebration of bookshops

    When authors pay tribute to booksellers, it’s not only a virtuous circle — it’s a double dose of joy for readers too

    A photograph of a terrace overlooking wooded hillsides, with small white tables shaded in the sun by white umbrellas and a glimpse of a bookshop at the far end of the terrace
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    The lasting legacy of writer James Baldwin

    As the author’s centenary approaches, his courageous, powerful and sometimes prescient work is finding new audiences around the world

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Pirates or princesses, the adventures we read as children shape us for life

    It’s an essential part of growing up, yet the number of kids who read purely for pleasure is at an all-time low

  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Reading the WorldBooks
    Writers on writers: why literary friends make the best biographers

    From Joan Didion to Toni Morrison: writers emerge most clearly in the memoirs of fellow authors

    A woman in her eighties, with straight shoulder-length hair and wearing a mauve sweather sits in shadow in a theatre seat, her expression serious and thoughtful
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