Empire of the Elite
Michael M. Grynbaum’s Empire of the Elite tells the story of Condé Nast, the magazine empire behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker.
Book Reviews
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quiet, reflective novel about a middle-aged woman who leaves Sydney, returns to her childhood town, and lives in an abbey.
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women exposes how gender data bias shapes everyday life, from healthcare and workplaces to transport, technology, public policy, and design.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny explores loneliness, relationships, family dynamics, and literary realism across India and America, along with thoughts on pacing, class, and detailed storytelling.
Phantom Plague
Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague traces the history and present crisis of tuberculosis, showing how stigma, poverty, drug resistance, pharma patents, and public-health failure continue to shape the disease.
India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
Audrey Truschke’s India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent offers a broad overview of Indian history, political myths, social reform, caste, women, and historical debates.
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Maggots, Murder, and Men
Maggots, Murder, and Men by Zakaria Erzinclioglu, exploring forensic entomology, real crimes, and the science of insects.
Faith and Fury
Jyoti Yadav’s Faith and Fury documents the human cost of Covid in India’s villages and small towns, focusing on migrant workers, rural distress, state failure, and lives left out of the national narrative.
Forensics
Forensics – What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid is a fascinating exploration of the science behind criminal investigations.
The Inconvenient Indian
Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian is a book that examines the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the USA, highlighting colonialism, displacement, and the struggle to preserve identity.