Arundhati Roy

Deserted Beaches, Lost Souls: On the Beautiful Emptiness at the Heart of White Lotus

David Barnes Considers the Literary Tourism of the Lotus-Eaters

 
By David Barnes  March 17, 2025
The Hub

Arundhati Roy is “unflinching” about genocide in her powerful PEN award acceptance speech.

By Brittany Allen  October 15, 2024
The Hub

The Indian government is planning to prosecute Arundhati Roy.

By Brittany Allen  June 17, 2024
The Hub

Arundhati Roy calls the siege of Gaza “a crime against humanity.”

By Dan Sheehan  November 17, 2023
Trauma

Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

By Etaf Rum  September 22, 2023
Pandemics

What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

By Emma Staffaroni  April 20, 2023
Democracy

Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

By Arundhati Roy  March 24, 2023
Reading Lists

On Borders Concrete and Intangible: A Reading List of the Inbetween

By Fatin Abbas  March 2, 2023
Nationalism

Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

By Arundhati Roy  April 21, 2022
Political Narratives

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  August 3, 2021
Parents

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

By Elina Zhang  July 7, 2021
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Two of India’s most famous writers are protesting the reissue of a Narendra Modi exam book.

By Dan Sheehan  May 20, 2021
How to Proceed

Arundhati Roy on Carrying the Inquiry Through Different
Art Forms

By How to Proceed   December 4, 2020
The Hub

Here are 20 new books coming to an indie near you this week.

By Katie Yee  September 1, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Arundhati Roy on Indian Suffering Amid the World’s Most Repressive Lockdown

By Arundhati Roy  September 1, 2020
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: A call for action from Arundhati Roy: “We need a reckoning.”

By Jonny Diamond  June 8, 2020
Fascism

The Graveyard Talks Back:
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
Working Class Literature

Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
In Conversation

Arundhati Roy: Stories ‘Must Not Lose Their Wilderness’

By Siddhartha Deb  July 10, 2019
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  June 4, 2019
PEN World Voices

Open Secrets at the PEN World Voices Festival

By Matt Grant  May 7, 2019
Fascism

An Appeal to the ‘Democratic Conscience of the State’
Won’t Get You Far

By Natasha Lennard  April 26, 2019
Feature

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019

By Emily Temple  December 28, 2018
Essay

What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

By Arundhati Roy  July 25, 2018
End of Year Lists

The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

By Emily Temple  December 18, 2017
What to Read

10 Magical Feminist Books to Inspire Creative Resistance

By Ariel Gore  September 25, 2017
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