You know how you can form a totally one-sided bond with a famous person, especially when you are young? Maybe you don’t. Maybe you haven’t. Maybe I was a weird kid. But I confess that ever since I can ...

Booker Prize–winning novelist Roy (The Ministry of Utmost Happiness) delivers a bracing memoir that traces her thorny relationship with her mother, teacher and social activist Mary Roy. The author was ...

For over 100 years, we’ve asked a simple question: What are you giving thanks for at this time of year? Our hope is that you have much to be grateful for with employment, family, friends, health, ...

It is hard to overstate the literary impact, in 1997, of Arundhati Roy’s début novel, “The God of Small Things.” A family drama set in a small town in Kerala, in southern India, it was evocatively ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with acclaimed author Arundhati Roy about her new book "Mother Mary Comes to Me," her first major work of autobiography. Ever since Arundhati Roy's writing made her famous ...