An amateur’s attempt at being Michiko Kakutani!
“Swirling like water against rugged rocks time goes around and around Thus with a Haiku does begin Denis Theriault’s beautifully tragic book. The…
Professor Richard Overy in this eye opener, details the gargantuan Soviet effort in amassing men and material, which on hindsight turned out to…
Antony Beevor picks up from where he left his epic “Stalingrad”. With “Berlin” he consolidates his cemented position as one of the premier…
A stupendous piece of narrative non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize winning Katherine Boo, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”, has at its bedrock the squalor,…
“Things Fall Apart” is the first in the African Trilogy series by Chinua Achebe and lays down the platform for a story that…
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote his magnum opus ‘Brave New World’ – a prescient masterpiece dealing with what the author termed as ‘a…
Intrigue, ambition and treachery. Jeffrey Archer’s first volume of the Clifton Chronicles has a story line that is racy, a plot that is…
The Bill Hodges trilogy reaches the apogee of mystery with the “End of Watch”. A racy thriller, “End Of Watch” has Retired Detective…
Taking recourse to seven diverse real life stories or rather strenuous struggles, Somini Sengupta reveals the arc of paradigm shift that is catapulted…
Grit, Gumption and Greatness. These were the three infallible attributes of the man voted by the Runners World Magazine as the Greatest Runner…