NON-FICTION: LOSING THE WORD
Karen Armstrong’s latest book is a grand tour of world religions, that develops her thesis that scripture is a way to
Taha Ali
NON-FICTION: THE CASE FOR TRAVEL
An American and a Pakistani pen a book that brims with serendipity; the central message is along the lines of ‘if you
NON-FICTION: CONTEXTUALISING THE DAWN OF ISLAM
Celebrated Western scholar Juan Cole situates the birth of Islam in the middle of an apocalyptic showdown between Rome
NON-FICTION: THE ‘CHALTA HAI’ CULTURE
A book delineates the overwhelming culture of the subcontinent in stunning detail, but fails in probing deeper into the
NON-FICTION: FOR THE LOVE OF MOCHA
A real-life tale about reinventing coffee works as a window into Yemeni culture and the crisis that it’s caught
NON-FICTION: PATHOLOGIES OF LIBERALISM
A critique of liberalism from a conservative perspective argues that there is an unresolved contradiction within it
NON-FICTION: SURVEILLANCE VALLEY’S THOUGHT POLICE
Journalist Yasha Levine’s book suggests that surveillance and thought control are not exceptional — they are part of the
NON-FICTION: JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS
Franklin Foer asks: what happens to society when journalism is reduced to little more than tabloid fare?
NON-FICTION: THE QURAN AND THE KORAN
What does it mean to translate a majestic religious text into another language? A new book offers food for thought
NON-FICTION: HOW THE LEFT WAS CONQUERED
Could the shattering of Greece’s economy in 2015 be a deliberate attempt to maintain imbalance in the European Union?
NON-FICTION: THE ROOTS OF THE MESSIAH
An exploration of how ‘Jewish Christianity’ bypassed Roman Christianity to link with Islam