Book Reviews

Human beings may soon have the ability to intelligently design future lifeforms. This book offers a glimpse into that unsettling and thought-provoking future

Gardiner's rigorous new book, Plastic Inc., answers by way of a compelling true-crime story: Plastic took over the globe through decades of intensive marketing, political manoeuvring, flat-out deceit

In her new book, Neha Sinha explores Delhi's hidden wilderness-from the Aravalli Range to the Delhi Ridge-revealing the capital's rich but overlooked biodiversity

The author's affectionate bond with his students in this book makes readers wish they had teachers like him

Mayyu Ali's terrifying yet hopeful memoir makes one think about how seemingly innocuous processes like birth registration are loaded with political significance

The author argues that Xi could dismantle Deng's "reforms" because latter was not totally committed to political reform and was against a third-party check on future establishment of personality cults

After laying the foundation to the UMA model in the first half of the book, Mr Das Gupta offers 28 nuggets, each looking at one aspect of the Indian consumer that has changed

A vibrant triple biography traces how Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West and Emily Hahn defied convention, blurred fact and fiction, and reshaped war reporting and literary journalism

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is a memoir in four parts - Daughter, Prisoner, Survivor, Warrior - by Giuffre, written in collaboration with Amy Wallace

Srinath Raghavan is less interested in the spectacle of the Emergency than in the decisions that preceded it and endured long after

Even among rags to riches stories of entrepreneurship, Desh Bandhu Gupta's life and achievements stand out

Navtej Sarna's book is utterly fascinating for the insights it provides into the politics of the freedom movement, personal freedom and the flag

The book's premise is that you can have a successful startup only if it satisfies a genuine customer need

Three new books use economics to decode behaviour, war and nature - revealing both the power and the limits of economic thinking in explaining our messy world

The book meditates on the blurred lines between fact and fiction, only to arrive at a semi-conclusion that both are governed by memory

Ms Chauhan demonstrates how the character of these spaces has been changed by the forces of urbanisation

The NGT's clearance for the Great Nicobar project highlights a widening gap between procedural environmental safeguards and the lived ecological and cultural costs on the ground

Throughout the book, and particularly in the first half, Mr Murugan talks about how cinema is tied in the fabric of Tamil society through anecdotes and his own analysis of certain phenomena

A little jab that protects us from some of the deadliest diseases has a fascinating backstory. Ameer Shahul does an admirable job of uncovering compelling ones in his book

A new history shows how the Vietnam War became a frontline of America's civil rights struggle, exposing deep racial injustice within the US military