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…
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…