by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
As borders become easier to cross for those with wealth, citizenship itself has become part of a growing global marketplace. Countries are increasingly offering passports and residency rights to investors, creating new
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by Nil The Impossible Factory constructs a powerful and at times troubling mythology of technological genius centred on Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works enterprise. Rather than a conventional biography, the book
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by Eric The book Africulture: On the Erasure of African Agricultural Genius is a forceful intervention into the history of agriculture, race, and epistemic authority, structured around a central provocation: that modern
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by Luxman The book Adolf Hitler and the Art of Tyranny: On Power, Will, and Leadership is constructed as a curated archive of authoritarian thought, framed through thematic organisation and interpretive commentary.
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by Durga The book Malcolm in the Desert: On Pilgrimage, Transformation, and Sacred Disruption is a bold and uneasy hybrid: part spiritual commentary on Malcolm X’s life, part philosophical treatise on transformation,
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Internal studio documents from Elstree Studios have revealed one of the most striking misjudgments in film history: the rejection of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels as unsuitable for cinema because they were
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The following excerpts are adapted from the author’s recent book, Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi’s New Republic, published by Verso Books. The unification of the repressive apparatus for the first time since 1952
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There is something quietly radical about Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law, although many readers—both admirers and critics—may fail to notice it. Published after one of the most polarising judicial confirmations
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Sri Lankan cinema is steadily moving into a new phase where its stories, aesthetics, and performers are increasingly finding space on prestigious international platforms. Over the past decade, filmmakers from the island
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by Durga “‘Azadi’ means ‘freedom.’” The clarity of this statement is immediately destabilised by the lived reality that follows: “Azadi Stadium… where 100,000 fans can watch the country’s most important games. But
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by Nil “Rumour and conspiracy theories can produce even more powerful effects than reality.” With this disquietingly contemporary observation, Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor declares its central
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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by Durga Changpeng Zhao’s Freedom of Money is an unusually self-reflexive work for a figure so deeply entangled in the infrastructural power struggles of contemporary finance. It is at once memoir, apologia,
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by Durga Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Trump’s Ten Commandments arrives with the air of a field manual masquerading as analysis, a taxonomy of power distilled into ten stark “rules” that purport to decode Donald
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