Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Salman Rushdie’s memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted ...

Despite the stereotypes, eunuchs clearly often played important roles in the ostensibly masculine world of strategic planning ...

Elif Shafak's novel There are Rivers in the Sky intertwines the lives of four characters through water, history, and hope in ...

And which saw a parallel version of themselves as the Mutant Liberation Front, taken down by the Avengers Of Assyria. A government task force, and loyal to the Sphinx, they were made up of Captain ...

There are historical figures who, for various reasons, transcend their status to become paradigms of something; in the case ...

All this leads us to revisit the question of historicity, and it must be said that in the Assyrian King List, compiled by the Assyrians in their time, there is no mention of a monarch named ...

one of Sennacherib's heirs, a king who ruled Assyria for 38 years, his grandson, Ashurbanipal. -So, what you see here, so this very flat, smooth surface, this is the floor of Ashurbanipal's Palace.

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...