Category: Book Review

  • Book Review: Gendering Caste: through a feminist lens

    The core of the caste system lies in the power dynamics between castes and prominently, between genders. Exploring the gender dynamics within the caste hierarchies has been a major topic among the feminist scholars from the past two decades. It has become an important issue to be addressed in social disciplinary studies. Also, understanding relations…

  • Book Review: “The Past We Step Into” by Richard Scharine

    “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.” – Cicero Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have experienced a part of American history? What it would have been like to hear…

  • Book Review: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production

    Karl Marx (1818-83) was a German philosopher whose work had contributed to various fields such as economics, politics, sociology and history. Affected by the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, his main focus was on ‘Class Conflict,’ especially between bourgeois and proletarians in capitalistic societies. The main aim of his work was to denote how capitalism…

  • A Boy Who Loved Me by Wilson Semitti – Book Review

    Accepting yourself is, by no means, an easy task. Everyone has had a moment in life where they felt like a different person from who they portray themselves as. This identity crisis, though one of the toughest phases of our lives, made us aware of our true selves. What we yearn for through this excruciating…

  • Haldane Fall by Charles Kern – Book Review

    Humanity has always entailed larger-than-life stories, people rising from mere existence to extraordinary destiny in pursuit of something greater than their desires. Such is the tale of Kertis Haldane, the fated sovereign who lost his loved ones to the cruel play of power, politics, and greed. With enemies eyeing for the destruction of his realm…

  • Assassins Are Us by Kimberly Van Sickle – Book Review

    Teenage life is a mess, and we all agree with it. Being stuck in a maze of friends, crushes, homework, college applications, and family drama is hard. Amidst the chaos that teenage life feels like, will you ever think about how an assassin’s life would be? Would you worry if the passenger sitting next to…

  • The First Robot President by Robert Carlyle Taylor – Book Review

    Year 2482. Derek is lying on his sofa watching the news through his digital screen. A robot assistant named Malda hands him his coffee and vanishes. While another robotic dishwasher is cleaning the mess that was left after yesterday’s party. Suddenly news flashes that the country is going to have a robot president. Anxious Derek…