Laura Mulvey, 78-year-old academic coined the phrase “Male Gaze” and almost 45-years-ago ignited a generation of feminists with her concept in 1`975, to describe the dominant assumption “ Sexual imbalance” in Hollywood that the perspective film-maker and view is male, and how it strategically positions men as spectators and women as objects, is now reaching…
Jim Simons who is worth $23bn is the greatest money maker in modern financial history, no other investor neither Warren Buffett, Rau Dalio, Steve Cohen, Peter Lynch, or George Soros can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 per cent and earned profits of over $100…
The story intrigue, corruption, betrayal and espionage of how the failure of Jacobites to restore the house of Stuart to the British throne, change the course of history. The book brings to life by spanning lives of mercurial Viscount Bolingbroke and stiff Lord George Murray to the half-mad Charles XII of Sweden and the suave…
A conspiracy removed Margaret Thatcher states Charles Moore almost in slow motion. The volume starts in 1987 with Thatcher’s third general election victory covers her fall from power in 1990, and her subsequent decline. In the previous two volumes Moore has worked 20 years covering her childhood and early years, then her first victory…
Edward IV who “upside-downed his brother and drowned him, dead in a butt of malmsey “was youthful war hero turned seedy sun-king, having seized the throne in 1461 just shy of his 19th birthday, and presided over a court that tottered bibulously on the line between chivalric self-glorification and flat-out debauchery. Edward was needled by…
In the era of Jane Austen only the eldest sons could inherit wealth, and how a single man not in possession of good fortune, will just have to roll up his sleeves and work for his living. Rory Muir reveals the customs of English aristocrats and their bourgeois imitators was to leave all their wealth…
Afghan born Pakistani poetess and writer Fatima Bhutto who studied at Columbia University writes about vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world, displaying truly global in its range and allure, challenging Hollywood, McDonalds and blue jeans. K-Pop from Korea provide universal satisfaction – not merely as entertainment but on an emotional level too.…
Five years ago Jacques Testard visited Frankfurt Book Fair and acquired the English-language rights for a book by a Ukrainian-born author shunned by mainstream publishers. Little did he know, a year later that £3, 500 investment, the biggest advance paid by his newly formed Fitzcarraldo Publishing House – paid off handsomely when Svetlana Alexievich won…
Gretchen McCulloch, a Canadian linguist, making sense of the ways we communicate online “ how internet is making us more nuanced and inventive writers”, in her latest book she writes “ because of internet, through a revolutionary period in linguistic history, where writing quickly, within character limits and deploying ever-changing internet slang, is enriching…
The Guardian newspaper investigative journalist Amelia Gentleman, received an email from a charity with a message describing how the UK government was trying to deport a 61-year-old grandmother who had arrived from Jamaica aged 10, but had no documents to prove that she had entered Britain legally. Months of investigation revealed that this was not…