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Month: November 2023

10 Horror Novels for Adults

10 Horror Novels for Adults to Enjoy Throughout the Year

Posted on November 25, 2023November 24, 2023 by Arghya Sarkar

These 10 horror books are full of malignant dark forces, both psychological and supernatural. They guarantee you – all adults – Halloween’s chills all year round. Imagine feeling the spooky Halloween excitement not just on October 31st but all year round. We’ve got a list of 10 scary books that keep you hooked, no matter…

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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Review)

Posted on November 25, 2023November 25, 2023 by Shaswata Ray

Learn more about the key arguments of Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari’s 2016 book, as the author discusses the biggest questions raised by its discourse in the review below. What lies ahead in the future for humankind? Will our technological progress enable us to build a flourishing civilization with the help of machines, or, will…

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Portrait of Arundhati Roy

The Best Works of Arundhati Roy and Why We Should Read Them

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Shaswata Ray

Happy Birthday, Arundhati Roy! Our author looks at and recommends some of her best works that make for great starting points for her body of literature. Arundhati Roy is among India’s best-known contemporary writers in English, who also often makes the news for her radical views and political activism. An architecture student, Roy came to…

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Devotions by Mary Oliver

Devotions by Mary Oliver (Review): Like Walking in the Woods

Posted on November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 by Shaniya Binoj

Read the review of one of Mary Oliver’s famous books of poems, Devotions, where poems speak in the language of nature. ‘Attention is the beginning of devotion’, observed Mary Oliver, a seeker who found life’s great questions mysteriously answered in the rhythms of the natural world and then reflected those quiet revelations within her poetic…

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Best Book to Screen Adaptations 2023

10 Best Book-to-Screen Adaptations of 2023

Posted on November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 by Oindri Das

Dive into the 10 best book-to-screen adaptations in 2023 that have left readers and cinephiles impressed alike 2023 has been one for the Hollywood history books! We’ve seen two major strikes, both of which continued for well over 100 days. The Writers Guild of America called off its strike on 24th September–after 146 days of…

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A Book of Simple Living by Ruskin Bond

A Book of Simple Living (2015) by Ruskin Bond (Review): Bond Thinks Better When He Is Alone 

Posted on November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 by Pritha Banerjee

Come and travel with the author as we explore the simple philosophies of living the hilly-billy silly mountain life that Ruskin Bond professed in his A Book of Simple Living (2015) If a man can be known by the ‘nature’ of his work, literally or more so, a child in us reminisces about Bond. This…

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