Pooneryn Terror Attack offers a compelling account of a pivotal battle in Sri Lanka’s civil war, exposing both the LTTE’s strategic planning and the vulnerabilities of the defending forces. Yet its commemorative
Pooneryn Terror Attack offers a compelling account of a pivotal battle in Sri Lanka’s civil war, exposing both the LTTE’s strategic planning and the vulnerabilities of the defending forces. Yet its commemorative
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D.L. Hughley’s memoir challenges the comforting idea that success liberates us from our beginnings. Through fractured family relationships, racial disadvantage, fame, infidelity and the demands of fatherhood, he confronts the unsettling possibility
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Gonzalo Suárez is being presented anew as a pioneering figure in Spanish literature and cinema, with Javier Cercas arguing that the writer and filmmaker was the country’s first truly postmodern author. The
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A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
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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,
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