Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, Elon Musk published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m
by Nil Politics, like war, is not merely about winning battles but about surviving them. Fight by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes is a gripping post-mortem of an America in turmoil, a
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by Eric Padraic X. Scanlan’s Rot is a searing examination of the corruption, exploitation, and decay inherent in colonial and imperial structures. With meticulous historical analysis and sharp prose, Scanlan dismantles the
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If history is the scaffold upon which civilizations build their myths, then Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age ruthlessly dismantles one of the grandest illusions of all: the Renaissance
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by Eric In The Dead Sea: A 10,000-Year History, the author excavates not merely the layers of sediment that compose the physical basin of this enigmatic inland sea but the strata of
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by Durga Edna Bonhomme’s A History of the World in Six Plagues is no passive chronology of pandemics—it is an excoriating treatise on the intersections of disease, colonialism, and the necropolitical calculus
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by Durga Velayutham Poststructuralism is often dismissed as an esoteric relic of late-20th-century French philosophy, an intellectual indulgence for those with time to unpick Derrida’s wordplay. Yet, in an age where Artificial
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by Durga George Raveling’s What You’re Made For is neither a memoir nor a simple self-help manual. It is a philosophical challenge wrapped in personal stories, a book that forces the reader
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by Eric Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy’s Memory Lane is not merely a book about memory; it is an unflinching confrontation with the fallibility of the human mind. We often think of
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by Eric Hugh Barker’s Quantum Leaps is an ambitious, sprawling text that aims to bridge the esoteric world of theoretical mathematics with the tangible advancements in modern technology. However, in its effort
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by Paul Michael Mandelbaum’s The Titans of the Twentieth Century purports to be an incisive exploration of eight men who “made history and the history they made.” The author, with an almost
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