Category: Book Review

  • HOUSE BOY by Lorenzo DeStefano: Book Review

    You would have heard this sometime in your life that the Caste system is limited to India and the ‘West’ is free of any such evil form of stratification. Well, the novel- House Boy, provides ample evidence against the statement. The story of a 24-year-old Dalit boy, Vijay, who finds himself experiencing in England, what…

  • Decoding the Complexities of Culture: Review of ‘Culture’ by Terry Eagleton

    Culture is an “exceptionally complex word”, says Terry Eagleton, and as constant agents who interact with it in our daily affairs, we know how complex it is to write a book about culture, that too in less than 200 pages. Terry Eagleton, in his book ‘Culture’, puts forth a similar attempt, and one can easily…

  • Book Review: Tapestry of My Mother’s Life by Malve von Hassell

    A spider’s web. A Tapestry, indeed. It’s intricacies, detailing and moreover an undying spirit to create a life of its own, especially, a soft home. This also holds true for a human being. Wars, poverty, physical assault, migration, death of loved ones, building homes amidst all of it, has been a story of Christa Zitzewitz,…

  • SKYRMION: BOOK ONE OF SWEETLAND QUARTET -BOOK REVIEW

    “I am so busy. I am practising my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.”― Jennifer Willoughby, Beautiful Zero: Poems This poem is an apt description of a state of restless…

  • Book Review: Drifters Realm by Annemarie Mazotti Gouveia

    Have you ever wondered what will happen to our planet in the future? Will there be a war or a giant meteor will destroy the Earth, or will we become extinct due to the man-induced exhaustion of resources, or conquer other planets and migrate once we have exhausted the potential here? What will that society…

  • An Interview with J.A. Adams, Author of “Bomb Cyclone”

    Title: Exploring Espionage, Love, and Geopolitical Tensions: An Interview with J.A. Adams, Author of “Bomb Cyclone” Bio: J.A. Adams has a PhD in English and taught English at LSU, with an emphasis on political science, until her retirement in Colorado in 2018. Her first novel, Pillars of Salt, reveals issues with oil production and corruption…

  • HOLLOW GODS: WHY LIBERALISM BECAME A DESTRUCTIVE RELIGION – BOOK REVIEW

    The theorists of modernity believe that with the progressive march of modernization, religion will have a very limited role to play. Contrary to expectations, the rise and growth of science and the spread of modernization have not been accompanied by the decline of religion in human life.  Durkheim was right when he said, “A society…