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 Eric Paul Kengor’s American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church is an unusual hybrid of rapid-response biography, ecclesiastical commentary, and ideological intervention. Written in the immediate
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by Nil Tom Wells’s The Kissinger Tapes arrives with the aura of a historical revelation, yet its deeper significance lies less in the novelty of the documents than in the unsettling portrait
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by Durga In recent years, the global market for spiritual self-improvement literature has been crowded with books promising resilience, clarity and self-mastery. Into this crowded field enters Shi Heng Yi’s Shaolin Spirit:
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by Luxman Lixing Sun’s On the Origin of Sex sets itself an ambitious task: to explain one of evolutionary biology’s most persistent puzzles – why sexual reproduction exists at all. The question
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David Ellison once dreamed of becoming a Hollywood actor, but after a rocky start, he instead built a media empire that now spans film, television, streaming, and news. The 43-year-old entrepreneur is
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After weeks of legal wrangling, a Division Bench of Justices S A Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan overturned a temporary stay imposed by a single bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas. The
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To be human has always meant trying to see what comes next. From ancient hunters reading animal tracks to farmers scanning the skies for rain, survival has depended on the ability to
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Introduction The question of nationalism in Sri Lanka remains one of the most consequential yet least understood issues in modern South Asian history. Satyagraha: The Freedom Movement of Tamils in Ceylon by
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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Pavan K. Varma’s The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River presents itself as a parable “for ordinary people,” but that description is almost aggressively misleading. This is not a gentle
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One needs a huge audacity and imagination to write a political satire, as it can always be a double-edged sword. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s famous Animal Farm are examples
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by Eric Tobias Straumann’s Out of Hitler’s Shadow is a book that sets out, with cool archival confidence and quiet provocation, to dismantle one of the most comfortable moral myths of postwar
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by Durga Chris Moore’s The Power of Guilt opens with a confession so extreme that it dares the reader to refuse him moral authority. “We had hit a group of fellow students
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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