Heart Lamp: Selected Stories: Winner of the International Booker PrizeIn the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well Indias most prestigious literary awards. A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women

Cesare Pavese

In Gamal el-Ghitani’s modernist masterpiece Pyramid Texts

where she hopes to make writing and performing poetry a stronger part of the curriculum

To celebrate publishing 21 issues of Banipal

a bonesetter

Carrie Etter's poems have the economy of good jokes

I’m reading Marx’s Capital and a book by Adler

He teaches London history at Birkbeck and is a former Chief Executive of the London Borough of Hackney

either intentionally or unintentionally

It is a novel that has recently been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic

hell bent on conquest and destruction in their rush towards the cliffs of destiny

Peter Huchel