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,
The chasm between the West and the Rest of the world has come to its apogee in these difficult days when US fighter jets fly above Isfahan and NATO countries suffer from
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P.K. Surendran is a noted film critic from Kerala, India, and a prominent voice in South Asian film discourse. A recipient of the Kerala State Award for the best book on cinema,
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by Durga Charles B. Jones’s “How Confucius Changed My Mind” is less a scholarly monograph than it is an intellectual conversion narrative. But beware: this is no light spiritual memoir. It is
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by Nil John Lisle’s “Project Mind Control” is a chilling exposé of America’s descent into moral ambiguity, cloaked in the language of national security. Through the enigmatic and unsettling figure of Sidney
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Albert Rutherford’s “Mathematical Thinking for People Who Hate Math” is nothing short of an insurgency against a culture that has, for generations, dismissed mathematical literacy as the province of a gifted few.
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Nadie Wasalamudaliarachchi, a Sri Lankan author, filmmaker, and political activist, is no stranger to the collision of art and politics. Her work, layered with trauma, resistance, memory, and quiet rebellion, has long
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The UK’s thriving multibillion-pound film industry is facing a significant threat after President Donald Trump, following advice from Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, announced plans to impose tariffs on films produced outside the
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President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films in a move he claims will protect the struggling American film industry and stop Hollywood from “dying
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by Durga Richard E. Farley’s Drop Dead is a searing, meticulously researched chronicle of the political, fiscal, and moral collapse that led to New York City’s infamous 1975 fiscal crisis. Written with
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Tom Cruise has been making films in Britain for nearly 40 years, forging such deep ties with the UK that he’s now being honoured with a Bafta Fellowship. From Kenneth Branagh to
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Accountability, or the orchestrated illusion of it, lies at the bleeding heart of our modern socio-political malaise. From the crumbling courthouses of collapsing democracies to the gilded executive chambers of unrestrained autocrats,
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by Eric In I Am a Part of Infinity, Kieran Fox does something that borders on the sacred—he resurrects the forgotten soul of one of the most revered minds in scientific history.
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by Nil Douglas Waller’s The Determined Spy is an incisive, meticulously researched, and moving portrait of Frank G. Wisner, a pivotal figure in the early years of the CIA. While the subtitle
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As artificial intelligence continues to shape the way we live and create, a new wave of literature is grappling with a deeply human question: What does it mean for machines to participate
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In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza Peter Beinart engages in a rigorous and unsparing interrogation of the foundational pillars upon which contemporary Jewish identity and statehood rest, following the 2023 hostilities between
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