1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (216+ words) REBEL ENGLISH ACADEMY By Mohammed Hanif PENGUIN/HAMISH HAMILTON 799; 320 pages This story is from the June 29, 2026 edition of India Today. MOHAMMED HANIF employs satire to good effect in his new novel, Rebel English Academy How Meenakshi Natarajan lost a Rajya…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (357+ words) DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR A FIRST TIME DAD OF TWINS This week, we're keeping identities anonymous thereby leaving you free to make a judgement without a risk of bias. You have a choice between two unidentified parents with two differing approaches…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (312+ words) Last week? Last month? Last year? Don't tell me you never have. Tartes aux agrumes meringu'es, the first things the teams must create on this week's Bake Off Pros, aren't just bog standard tartes aux agrumes, I'll have you know....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (292+ words) The cast and showrunner Eric Kripke talk about real life 'out-crazying' the series during its five-season run -Story by Max Gao WHEN COMIC creator Garth Ennis first conceived "The Boys" in 2004, blending the cult of celebrity with the high stakes…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (426+ words) The comedian talks about his love of suburbia, valuing older people and the joys of pottering He didn't leave home until he was 37, but comedian and TV presenter Tom Allen says he has always felt older than his years. He…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (344+ words) Everything since has only wounded the country that both sides claim to defend. Satire has one honest role: to show displeasure, and in this case, it did that job within days. This story is from the June 05, 2026 edition of The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (363+ words) Aerodynamic forms twirl and whirl, picking insects off the choppy surface with angelic daintiness. The sustenance will fuel their journeys north to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Recently arrived common terns, readying to nest around the lake, share the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (472+ words) In her debut book Touching Grass, political cartoonist Rachita Taneja reflects on doom scrolling, censorship, and satire, and chooses humour and hope to confront the absurdities of contemporary India. A conversation. IN a week when India's internet and social media…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (304+ words) THE CONSTANT WIFE Theatre Royal Bath Kara Tointon, left, and Sara Crowe, below, in The Constant Wife The Olivier award-winning writer of Home, I'm Darling and the recent winner of the International Emmy for her TV series Rivals brings the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (276+ words) Does anyone really want to read about the state of the nation at the moment? When the state of said nation is getting bleaker by the hour, each turn of the page of Amanda Craig's eleventh novel feels like the…...