Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: Amazon.com) Written just a year before his death in 2020, John Le Carré’s ‘Silverview’ represents  the culmination of an era of…

Replete with melodramatic references straight out of a Danielle Steele or a Nicholas Sparks playbook, “Dear Barack” by author Claudia Clark, is a…

One of the most cherished freedoms accorded to the citizens of any nation is that of free speech. Stifling free speech and compromising…

A vast, rich and diverse body of colonial and post-colonial writing has embellished the global literary landscape. Educational in content and introspective in…

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many conventional notions which otherwise represented an ordinary way of life. Whether it be the concept of working…

In any war the strategies formulated outside the field of action assume as much importance as the heroics exhibited on the battlefields themselves.…

Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California,…

American author and screenplay writer, Steven Pressfield employs a spontaneous and freewheeling method of writing in his book “The War of Art”, whose…

Dr. Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv in their compelling book “Way Out”, introduce the concept of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a radical approach…

Former India cricketer and current coach of the Indian national team, Ravi Shastri considers the great Sunil Gavaskar to be his mentor. Now…