Sometimes fiction is a little bit truer than reality,” Wijeratne remarks early in our conversation on the sidelines of the Galle Literary Festival (GLF). It’s a statement that seems paradoxical at ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

Reviewed by Leelananda De Silva Godfrey Goonetilleke is one of the outstanding personalities in the public life of Ceylon/Sri Lanka in the latter half of the 20th century. As a brilliant scholar in ...

The Secret Life of Dubai’s Street Cats was first published by The Dreamwork Collective in 2021 as the debut novel of Emirati writer, Bashayer Arif. Now reaching international audiences with a ...

Steve Smith has been cleared to rejoin the Australian squad for the Sri Lanka Test series after recovering from an elbow injury. He will start batting practice later this week in preparation for ...

China’s record US$3.7 billion investment in a Sri Lankan oil refinery has sparked fresh security concerns in India, analysts say, as New Delhi sees the growing Chinese presence near its borders ...

He kept a spreadsheet that calculated how many months the studio could survive. Ingold’s favorite writer is Gene Wolfe, whose sentences he calls “crisp, clear and powerful” despite often ...

The first was Kavirajamarga, the earliest available Kannada work on rhetoric, poetics and grammar written by Sri Vijaya, a court poet of Amoghavarsha Nrupatunga, the most prominent emperor of the ...

If the American experience had a cinematic poet, it was him. The news that Lynch had left us was shocking only because it seemed that he’d be here with us forever.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

China will actively support Sri Lanka in focusing on economic development and the two countries should jointly foster new highlights in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, as well as ...