Former Sky News Diplomatic Editor Tim Marshall in his earlier 2015 book Prisoner’s of Geography explored how the plans of national leaders are often shaped by their nations mountains, Oceans and rivers. China’s obsession with the height of Tibetan plateau stems largely from a deep seated fear that India would otherwise seek to control it,…
Edward Said, an influential individualistic, celebrated public intellectual, and distinguished literary and cultural critic, who is associated with Orientalism, a ground breaking study, an indictment of English and French scholars for tattling a false image of the East, as a static backward and uncivilised for placing their knowledge at the service of Western imperialism. He…
A lesbian art graduate’s biographical, candid and darkly funny fiction tell us Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet who lives a simple life with her wife and two daughters in a village near the mountains. Permaforst is about lives of three women Boulder, about ship’s cook who has an IVF baby appeared in Catalan last…
Years between 1870 and the end of World War II, several prominent French Jews pillars of an embattled community invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. James McAuley explores the role…
Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment: Winning and losing in one-click America, highlights with empathy and breadth, what drives economic populism and the division between a sliver of the professional-managerial elite in winner-takes-all cities and everyone else, also the hidden human costs of other inequality not the growing gap between the rich and poor, but the gap between…
The Easter Rebellion in 1916, as the Irish Government had a dilemma, as to how the upraising be commemorated, as the Republic of Ireland came into being as a consequence of the “ Rising” and thus the centenary could be marked in the most official way possible by having the Irish Army parade through Dublin…
The former Bank governor and now the UN special envoy for climate finance, Mark Carney focuses on the global financial system and corporate governance, along with climate change. Carney’s detailed account of money and finance, where we get tantalising glimpses of life as a central banker – gilt chairs at a G20 summit in Riyadh…
During pandemic doctors and nurses have been applauded as saviors by the grateful public, even though they have been flying blind lacking the knowledge or resources to tackle Covid-19. Jim Down, a critical care consultant at University College London Hospitals, tells the story of one intensive care team struggling to fend off the first wave,…
Hannah Dawson, a British academic has been reading, sifting, and understanding this vast global project, the endless battle for freedom of choice. Feminism is the insight that sexism exists, and the struggle against that oppression. The book begins with an experience of female harassment. “Feminism only makes sense if you believe in feminism, privilege does…
Jeanie and Julius, the twins have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty, Inside the Walls of their English old cottage in the fictional Melbourne, they make music, and in the garden, they grew everything they need for sustenance. While…