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Celebrate V.O. Chidambaram Pillai's audacious act of starting a shipping company under colonial rule with A.R. Venkatachalapathy's new book, ‘Swadeshi Steam’.

Saraswathi’s recent work Beedi Hennu is a translation of Marathi author Baburao Bagul’s groundbreaking work, Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti, gives voice to marginalised sections. Bagul’s collection of short stories, first published in 1963, revolutionized not just Dalit literature but left an indelible mark on Marathi and Indian literature. It…

In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war.

Explore the remarkable story of V.O. Chidambaram Pillai's battle against the British maritime empire & south India's role in the country's freedom struggle in A.R. Venkatachalapathy's book "Swadeshi Steam".

Thomas Jane has lost the rights to make an upcoming Stephen King adaptation, but he's still holding out hope he can do it one day.

The amazing work done by the Kids Company founder should not be buried by controversy, says Guardian correspondent Libby Brooks

I grew up in Tasmania in the 1980s. The capital city, Hobart, had a bit of a “living at the edge of the world” feeling in those days. It seemed about as far away from anywhere as you could get. So, I remember the thrill when the first hints of…

New York progressive star among subjects of The Rebels, survey of the modern US left by Joshua Green

A Farewell to Arms, one of Ernest Hemingway's best novels, is getting the film treatment... again.

From hilarious fiction by Terry Pratchett and PG Wodehouse to memoirs by Patricia Lockwood and Adam Kay, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

Hold onto your hats, book lovers, because we've got some exciting news! A new novel based on Anne Frank's life, written by bestselling author Alice Hoffman...