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 Jay Heinrichs’ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion (2025) is an audacious amalgam of classical rhetoric, pop culture exegesis, and self-help exhortation, positing that Aristotelian persuasive techniques can catalyse personal transformation. With
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by Nil Shunryu Suzuki’s Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, curated by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler and Sojun Mel Weitsman, constitutes a limpid yet provocative compendium of Soto Zen teachings, distilled
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J. Randy Taraborrelli’s JFK: The Kennedy Years constitutes an ambitious, if occasionally florid, exegesis of John F. Kennedy’s life, with a particular emphasis on his personal entanglements and political ascendancy. This voluminous
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Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist offers a perspicuous and disquieting exploration of the psychological interplay between Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a US Army psychiatrist, and Hermann Göring, a preeminent Nazi
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by Durga Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King is a masterful work of historical biography and narrative, weaving a vivid tapestry of the late Ottoman Empire under
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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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