Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
The free-roaming range of a child has been reduced dramatically in only a few generations. About three generations ago, most children were free to travel the full range of their town, but
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The book Rogue State by William Blum presents a compelling argument that America is the world’s biggest rogue state. Blum’s work serves as a glaring example of this assertion. It exposes the
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The following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, , published by Harper Collins Publishers The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. — Edward R. Murrow
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Editor’s Note: Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, arrives in September 2024. This new work delves into how information flow
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The following excerpts are adapted from the author’s latest book, Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails. We’re deeply mired in a serious crisis that is touching all of
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc “For many who are tuned in to what Walter Benjamin
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, “Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry” published by Canon Gate The first reports to reach the Western public were buried towards the
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, published by Macmillan Publishers Stout but not quite obese, and boasting a prominent belly, Yutala
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In Blue Collar Empire, Jeff Schuhrke uncovers how US labor unions, driven by anticommunist aims, became tools of Cold War geopolitics. This review explores the book’s revelations on the contradictions between workers’
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From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, and proposals for change,
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Following excerpts adapted from author’s news book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, published by Hachette Book Group In 1886, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote a short story called
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As Sri Lanka approaches the pivotal Presidential elections on 21 September 2024, a new book, Sri Lanka: From Debt Default to Transformative Growth, offers a strategic vision for the country’s economic future.
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Editor’s Note: The following excerpts are adapted from Scarred Communities by Dr. Daya Somasundaram, a senior professor of psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, and a consultant psychiatrist. Originally
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Unlike in the West, Eastern societies did not have much interest in Western psychological counselling because many in these societies believed that counselling is interwoven with the teachings and practices of Eastern
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These excerpts are adapted from the author’s latest book, published by Shambhala Publications. It’s like an ox that enters through a latticed window. Its head, its horns, and its four legs, they
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