Bookend – Where reading meets review

While “Requiem” is supposed to be a hallucinatory exploration of the sights and sounds of Lisbon on one sweltering July day, it is…

(Image Credit: BookFrom.Net archive) First, it’s time for a confession. If after Pereira Maintains,I was an intrepid eager beaver ferreting about for the…

It was while taking advantage of an idle stretch of time in between a couple of business meetings, that I stumbled upon –…

In August 1996, Eric R. Kandel, one of the most decorated neuroscientists of all time, was busy helping his wife hanging the laundry…

Every time I finish reading a book ‘on writing’, I scamper back to my well worn-out copy of “Why I Write” by George…

Time well spent is liberating. Time as a phenomenon, when expended according to one’s own volition is delightful. Time allowed to lapse at…

Reading more like a hyper extension of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” than an introduction to an explosion of technology, James Barrat’s  thought…

Bleak, brooding and breathtaking, David Diop’s 2021 International Booker Prize Winning work is certainly not for the faint hearted. Set in the trenches…

Erbaqyt Otarbai, a middle aged Kazakh man who called Tacheng, a town six hours away from Urumchi, was unloading his truck in an…

In the year 1956, bestselling American science fiction author, Philip K. Dick penned a disturbing dystopia titled “The Minority Report.” The plot has…