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
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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by Nil Katrina Manson’s Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is at once a work of embedded journalism, a character study, and an unsettling meditation
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by Eric Sebastian Mallaby’s The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence is an ambitious, at times unsettling, attempt to narrate the making of a technological epoch through the
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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by Durga Caroline Wong’s The AI Cybersecurity Handbook offers a comprehensive, forward-looking exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. Framed as both a diagnostic survey and a practical guide,
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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A newly released book, The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations, is sending shockwaves through the corridors of history and diplomacy, offering unprecedented insight into the inner workings of one
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Wasantha Karannagoda, The Turning Point: The Naval Role in Sri Lanka’s War on LTTE Terrorism. India Penguin: New Delhi, p.412., ISBN: 978-0143469292 Numerous scholarly articles and monographs have examined the decisive military
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