A Dictator Calls (2023) by Ismail Kadare: Milan Kundera wrote in his seminal work ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’ that ‘the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting’. Treading on this dangerous lane, Ismail Kadare, the leading novelist of Albania, draws a fine line between the treacherous historical truth…
Jeremy Nobel’s latest work, published by Penguin Publishing Group, takes on a dynamic look at loneliness and the growing issue of chronic illnesses associated with it. Recently, WHO declared loneliness as a ‘pressing global threat’, so much so that the average mortality quotient is equivalent to the effect of smoking 15 cigarettes every day. Project…
Explore the 10 best female detective books in English literature that will have you lose your good night’s sleep over cruel, tricky, murderous plots Most young girls who grew up reading Famous Five wanted to be George. That’s not to disparage poor Anne at all. She often suffered the brunt of our uncharitable thoughts. George…
As we remember the assassination of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Paul Auster’s Bloodbath Nation (2023) navigates through the horrifying history of gun violence in America and what initiated the statelessness of political conditions in the purview of obstructive legislative or executive forces. It is a blind eye that we turn to the eight…
As late autumn makes you huddle inside your blankets on most evenings, enjoy these 5 dark academia books to remind you of all things academic elitism, murderous cults and secret clubs. Dark Academia, a burgeoning subculture dominating social media platforms, idealizes higher education, classical art, literature, and architectural aesthetics such as Greek and Gothic styles….
Dive into the poems for Mary Oliver’s A Thousand Mornings imbibed with the solace of her observations in Nature. In an interview with Krista Tippett in 2015, Mary Oliver profoundly proclaimed – ‘I did find the entire world, in looking for something. But I got saved by poetry, and I got saved by the beauty…