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 Durga Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf arrives disguised as a book about animals, even as it quietly dismantles that premise almost from the start. What it becomes instead is
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by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and the moral
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by Durga Xi Van Fleet and Yu Jie’s Made in America is a book that positions itself not merely as memoir or polemic but as warning siren — and it does so
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Stellan Skarsgård, one of European cinema’s most enduring presences, is experiencing an unexpected career crescendo at 74. After six decades of work across theater, arthouse cinema, and Hollywood blockbusters, the Swedish actor
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by Luxman It is an early twentieth-century work by Edward Gait, first published in 1926, shaped by the intellectual and imperial assumptions of its time. A History of Assam is not simply a regional
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by Eric McNamara at War: A New History, written by Philip Taubman and William Taubman, is not merely another biography of Robert S. McNamara, nor is it a conventional re-litigation of the
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by Eric How did the world’s most advanced economy allow its crown jewels to slip quietly into the hands of a strategic rival? When did free trade mutate into a one-way transfer
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has published a 216-page memoir, Le journal d’un prisonnier (The Diary of a Prisoner), detailing his three-week incarceration in La Santé prison following his October
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With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, pinching off floodplains, and blocking
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Lady Brenda Hale’s With the Law on Our Side arrives at a moment when public confidence in democratic institutions is increasingly fragile and governments across liberal democracies are testing the limits of
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by Durga Andrea Iorio’s Between You and AI reads like a manifesto for a new kind of leadership—one that refuses to cling to the comforting illusion that technological transformation is something external,
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by Eric To read How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude is to encounter gratitude not as a soft moral sentiment but as a cultural force powerful
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Durga Charles Ferguson’s Presidential Seclusion presents itself as a history of Camp David, but in truth it is a far more unsettling mirror held up to American power itself—its contradictions, its
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