Sujit Saraf’s ‘Island’ is a captivating exploration of isolation, ambition and the collision between modernity and indigenous ...

Sujit Saraf's new novel 'Island' is based on that of the American missionary, 26-year-old John Chau, who landed illegally on ...

In a matter of days, catastrophe strikes; it is a credit to Saraf’s abundant imagination and firm control over the story that ...

In so doing, she situates the book within the broader historiography of Indian independence, contributing a detailed perspective on integration that complements accounts focused on the partition and ...

Members of the Jarawa tribe catching fish at low tide in 2002 Credit: Thierry Falise If you’ve heard of the Andaman Islands at all, it’s likely because of one tribe – the Sentinelese – and ...

The Great Nicobar Project is a shipping and military development plan which threatens two isolated tribes – the Jarawa (pictured here in 2002) and the Shompen - Thierry Falise My journey to the ...

These memoirs, thrillers, romance, literary fiction, nonfiction and short stories focus on Native and Indigenous stories Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

He’s a tribal council member for the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe. Thousands of feet below, desert mountains and rippling canyons stretched toward the horizon. The Colorado River glimmered in ...

The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script. By Muktita Suhartono Reporting from Baubau ...

When Dino Beltran scans a 68-acre vineyard in the heart of Sonoma County, he sees land where his ancestors traded goods with other tribes, long before tourists flocked to the storied California ...

Defying Indian laws that protect these ancient people from outside incursions, he made multiple attempts to reach them, before being killed by an arrow shot by a member of the tribe. Saraf gives a ...

Community is a connection based on fellowship, cooperation, and mutual affection, as I write in my book, The Quest: The Definitive Guide to Finding Belonging. Tribalism forms connections based on ...