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…
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…
The author reviews a modern classic – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – that is a scathing critique of the European colonization of the life and culture of one of the indigenous communities of Africa, successfully overwriting the idea of Native Africans being “the white man’s burden”. Things Fall Apart, the first novel by…
Adapted into a 2021 film starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkummar Rao, Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) is an Indian novel that dives into the truths behind its modernization. “The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.” Winner of the 40th Booker Prize, Indian author Aravind Adiga’s…
This list explores ten bildungsroman novels, each representing unique coming-of-age journeys from different times and places, arranged chronologically according to their year of publication. The coming-of-age tale represents one of the most universally relatable literary genres insofar as it deals with a phenomenon common to almost all of us: the rite of passage from our…
If you have spent much of your childhood and adulthood wishing you were a part of a Jane Austen-esque world, these ten book-to-screen adaptations of Austen’s works are the right place to start! Jane Austen was an English novelist popularly known for her six novels exploring the patriarchal social mores of her time while also…