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Nandini Das in The Guardian: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld tells the story of Bartram and Kew as part of a nuanced, complicated account of the British empire’s impact on the world as we
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GOOD READ: A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. “…this book explains why even
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At its core, Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive is a novel about a tragic and violent crime that rocks a community, wrecks two families, and rends to shreds the close friendship
Author Usman, a US national of Pakistan origin, lives in New Jersey. His novel’s main character Dr.Steven Lucas has a solution to end the fear of nuclear war: A cloud
‘The Rebel’s Clinic,’ by Adam Shatz, is an engrossing biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Becca Rothfeld reviews Adam Shatz’s new biography of Frantz Fanon in The
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The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but not all propaganda is art.” Few people would argue with the second part of that
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi, Lahore, Dhaka, Mumbai, etc.) should adapt to a perilous environmental future. Jon Michaud at The
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‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack for solving decades-long cold cases in his free time. In the seven years Hutchinson has
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The problem with most management, leadership, and business books is that many of them harp on the same self-evident points, overconfident in the usefulness of their prescriptions for would-be imitators.
Continue readingCulture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company
The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli review – a tsar is born: The imagined life story of a shadowy Kremlin insider offers a chilling perspective on Putin’s
By: AAP FactCheck A Facebook post claims that secret manuscripts uncovered in a Tibetan monastery detail more than 10,000 years of human history. The February 8 post features an image of a
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Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States By John ZubrzyckiHurst 337pp £25 order from bookshop Book Review ‘Midnight’s Playboys’ by Pratinav Anil in The Literary Review: ‘Unruly schoolboys,’ Lord Curzon
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