Time past or time future – which is worse? Was it when women were hounded as witches, or will it be in an imagined future when a virus attacks and kills only men? Can there ever be a straightforward answer to the inordinately complex and often vexed societal and personal relationships between men and women? Many questions, no easy answers.
Amy K Blakemore is a widely published and anthologised poet based in London. Her debut novel, the prize-winning The Manningtree Witches was published in 2021.
More InfoChristina Sweeney-Baird is a practicing lawyer whose debut novel The End of Men, published in 2021 is already being translated into 16 languages and being made into a film.
More InfoInauguration of Tata Literature Live! 2021
followed by Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Hrishi K
Planting a green thought
Jonathan Drori, Pradip Krishen
Chair: Suprabha Seshan
How I became a writer
A straight talk by Peter Stamm