Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to host a reading by celebrated author Ruth Vanita on Tuesday, April 23, at 7:00 pm. Vanita will read selections from her most recent poetry collection The Broken Rainbow (Copper Coin Publishing). This event is free and open to the public.
Ruth Vanita is the author of two historical novels, Memory of Light (Penguin, 2022) and A Slight Angle (forthcoming Penguin, 2024), two collections of poetry, and many non-fiction works, including Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India (Penguin) and The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics (OUP, 2023). She is also a well-known translator; her most recent translation is On the Edge: 100 Years of Hindi Fiction on Same-Sex Desire (Penguin 2023). Her Shakespeare's Re-Visions of History will appear this summer.