Category: Books
The World’s First Author
Anna Della Subin at the LRB: The earliest known author was married to the moon….
A Nuanced Account of the British Empire’s Impact on the World
Nandini Das in The Guardian: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld tells the story of Bartram and Kew…
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
GOOD READ: A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how…
Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction
At its core, Lindsay Hunter’s Hot Springs Drive is a novel about a tragic and violent…
‘The Cloud’: Emmy Award Winning Actor Logan Crawford Interviews Jamil Usman About His Novel
Author Usman, a US national of Pakistan origin, lives in New Jersey. His novel’s main…
The Doctor Who Saw Colonialism as a Sickness
‘The Rebel’s Clinic,’ by Adam Shatz, is an engrossing biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and…
Six Books You Didn’t Know Were Propaganda
The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but…
Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi,…
How One Police Officer Solved Eight Cold Cases in His Spare Time
‘Badass Detective’: Matt Hutchinson is a curious and determined Bay Area detective with a knack…
Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company
The problem with most management, leadership, and business books is that many of them harp…
The Wizard of the Kremlin
The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli review – a tsar is born:…
Claim of 10,000-year-old Tibet library find not worth paper it’s written on
By: AAP FactCheck A Facebook post claims that secret manuscripts uncovered in a Tibetan monastery detail more…