“Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has just lost her most enthralling subject.” Roy has become one of the most fearless voices for ...

Ever since Arundhati Roy's writing made her famous after her first novel won her the Booker Prize nearly 30 years ago, she's used her words and her celebrity to write on injustice, minority rights and ...

Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now! to your inbox each morning. Special guests Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe and more came together to celebrate 30 years of Democracy ...

Arundhati Roy’s coruscating new memoir centers her tumultuous relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a brilliant but volatile pathbreaker the acclaimed novelist calls “my mother, my gangster…my ...

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