Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The literary world has lost two writers, including a celebrated poet. Andrea Gibson, who used the pronoun they, explored gender identity, ...

Andrea had a unique ability to offer their readers and listeners a way of living, to show us how much we need tenderness, and ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

Author Andrea Gibson, best known for their spoken word poetry and LGBTQ activism, died after a four-year battle with ovarian ...