Shattered by Hanif Kureishi Review – Picking Up the Pieces
The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance … Continue readingShattered by Hanif Kureishi Review – Picking Up the Pieces
How Circadian Rhythms Make Life on Earth Tick
From honeybees and penguins to time-stressed humans, the humming of inner clocks is essential to survival. … Continue readingHow Circadian Rhythms Make Life on Earth Tick
Hungry Ghosts
The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts. … Continue readingHungry Ghosts
Why Migrants Matter
Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was subjected to disparaging comments because of his migrant status and his Phoenician ethnicity. … Continue readingWhy Migrants Matter
All History is Environmental History
…and that includes both environmental effects on societies and those societies’ impacts on the environment. … Continue readingAll History is Environmental History
Autocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today… … Continue readingAutocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy. … Continue readingNoam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
H.G. Wells ‘Land of the Blind’
Shazia Shazia: In this story, the author tells us about a strange disease – joint disease spread in a remote village isolated from the world. … Continue readingH.G. Wells ‘Land of the Blind’
Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
Balmurli Natrajan: “Hinduism has many aspects to it that have really nothing to do with Hindutva.” … Continue readingIndian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
Henry Miller on Becoming a Writer: “No Daring is Fatal”
If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out. — Henry Miller … Continue readingHenry Miller on Becoming a Writer: “No Daring is Fatal”
Is the United States a Prisoner of Its Own Mythology?
Tom Zoellner in the Los Angeles Review of Books: The stories that a country tells itself are just as critical to its functioning as its army, its laws, its borders,
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The Last Days of Mankind
Today, each one of the assumptions that underpinned western policymaking and journalism for nearly three decades lie shattered. … Continue readingThe Last Days of Mankind