Books

Book: Wild By Design: The Rise Of Ecological Restoration Author: Laura J. Martin Publisher: Harvard Price: $39.95 Although the United States of America is ranked a lowly 20th among the 22 cou...

Book: The Inconceivable Idea Of The Sun Author: Anil Menon Publisher: Hachette Price: Rs. 599 In 2013, in an illuminating article on the importance of reading, especially fiction, Neil Gaiman wrot...

Book: Liberalism And Its Discontents Author: Francis Fukuyama Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $26 Francis Fukuyama became an academic celebrity after he announced the end of history in...

Book: Empire Of The Scalpel: The History Of Surgery Author: Ira Rutkow Publisher: Scribner Price: $29.99 Ira Rutkow’s riveting book can be read simultaneously as a developmental history of s...

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee's upcoming book, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine, will take readers through a journey of discovery to the very...

If there is one single most romanticised street in Calcutta, it is Park Street. Now it has its own memoir: Park Street Theke Phire Dekha (Looking Back From Park Street) by Pulak Kumar Chakraborti. Cur...

The PEN Center, Germany, will present the award to the Indian author at a ceremony in Darmstadt on November 15 this year. The winner will receive an amount of €20,000 ($19,996) as prize money. Th...

Forty years ago, in September 1982, the first "Banned Books Week" took place in the United States. According to bannedbooksweek.org, this annual awareness campaign was first launc...

Books: The Candy House Author: Jennifer Egan Publisher: Little, Brown Price: Rs. 1,599 The Candy House explores a world where technology enables humans to upload and share their consciousness...

Books: Translating Myself And Others Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Publisher: Princeton Price: $21.95 As a novelist, Jhumpa Lahiri has made a brave, perhaps eccentric, decision. The author of two novels a...