New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani influenced his mother's career as a teenage boy when he supported her in the decision to turn ...

One of the most anticipated books of the year, Lahiri's first novel (after 1999's Pulitzer Prize–winning Interpreter of Maladies) amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Hopscotching across 25 ...

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The prize is the Pulitzer; the speaker is Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri, whose 1999 debut story collection, ”Interpreter of Maladies,” made her, at 32, one of the youngest writers to win one ...

Readers, including the author Jhumpa Lahiri, respond to the Barnard president’s guest essay about speakers at universities. Also: The benefits of trees. The museum said the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

The brouhaha over immigration - with all of the shouting about Dreamers, deportations, walls, and bad words for troubled places - strikes Jhumpa Lahiri especially hard. The British-born, ...

When people say that learning a language is like falling in love, they only seem to remember the honeymoon period. But in her new memoir, In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri reminds us that the courtship of ...

President Obama will award Indian-American short-story writer and novelist, Jhumpa Lahiri, with a National Humanities Medal Thursday. This award honors individuals and groups who have deepened the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Jhumpa Lahiri about her latest book 'Translating Myself and Others,' and the impact translating has had on her own writing in both Italian and English. The ...

AS LATE-FALL AFTERNOON light floods the high-ceilinged living room of Jhumpa Lahiri’s brownstone in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the author exudes an outward stillness that in other circumstances might be ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel is all about small, intimate moments playing out in public places. We never learn the main character's name. It could be anyone in any place.