BOOK REVIEW

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Destructive potential of sentient AI

AI is still not intelligent in the human sense, but fears of a superintelligent threat to humanity are not misplaced

Updated On: 05 Jan 2026 | 11:26 PM IST

American Reich explores the culture of hate in US' far-right groups

Eric Lichtblau's American Reich traces the murder of Blaze Bernstein to the wider, chilling rise of neo-Nazi violence and white supremacy in contemporary America

Updated On: 04 Jan 2026 | 10:25 PM IST

The living mountains: Anuradha Roy's intimate portrait of life in the hills

Anuradha Roy's Called by the Hills is a luminous, reflective memoir of building a life in the Himalayas-where gardens, memories and ecology quietly intertwine

Updated On: 02 Jan 2026 | 10:59 PM IST

Economica: How women shaped the economy long before history sidelined them

The book is interested in not just the stories of the women who amassed immense wealth and wielded great power, but those whose quiet labour laid the building blocks of history

Updated On: 01 Jan 2026 | 10:02 PM IST

Revolting: How Terry Deary retells history through revolt and irony

By revisiting lesser-known rebellions and forgotten episodes, Revolting takes readers on a tour of the world

Updated On: 31 Dec 2025 | 10:56 PM IST

Click Here: A timely reminder that marketing fundamentals are not outdated

In the ever-changing digital world, Click Here offers a refresher course that should be again and again to stay up to speed on the subject

Updated On: 30 Dec 2025 | 10:31 PM IST

What histories of Islamic-world slavery get right, and what they miss

A probing review of Captives and Companions reveals how slavery's long legacy in the Middle East shapes language, race, and memory - and how history itself becomes contested terrain

Updated On: 28 Dec 2025 | 11:28 PM IST

The Railways as social contract: What Amitava Kumar's book reveals

Slim, at just 130 pages, the book might be a bit of a disappointment for readers looking for an in-depth account of the history and socio-economic aspects of the Indian Railways

Updated On: 26 Dec 2025 | 11:42 PM IST

Camus in his own words: Discipline, doubt, and the limits of intimacy

Camus's notebooks, which run from 1935 to 1959 contain almost nothing about his friends or his family, his experiences during wartime or much about his personal life

Updated On: 25 Dec 2025 | 11:16 PM IST

The Battle of Narnaul: Re-examining the 1857 rebellion and selective memory

The book is an invitation to rediscover a moment of defiance and to shed light on forgotten heroes whose sacrifice deserves recognition

Updated On: 24 Dec 2025 | 10:48 PM IST

Urjit Patel's new book uncovers Western sanctions and their discontents

The author's analysis highlights another factor, namely, overestimating benefits and understating or ignoring the welfare costs of sanctions, including to third parties

Updated On: 23 Dec 2025 | 11:16 PM IST

The Great Indian Brain Rot: How platform capitalism is reshaping thinking

A central insight of the book lies in its sustained attention to influence as a social and economic form

Updated On: 23 Dec 2025 | 12:17 AM IST

Unseen captures the behind-the-scenes evolution of Zomato's Deepinder Goyal

The book not only tells of many such awe-inspiring moments in the life of a startup, it also captures the unpredictability, risk and adventure through it all

Updated On: 21 Dec 2025 | 10:36 PM IST

Ghost-Eye: Amitav Ghosh's book on rebirth, regeneration and cycles of life

We are lucky that Ghosh continues to tell stories that are profound, layered and meaningful

Updated On: 19 Dec 2025 | 10:39 PM IST

Furious Minds: The MAGA intellectuals and the rise of extremist ideas

How ideas that used to be the arcane obsessions of nerdy young men and buttoned-up tenured professors have become 'an engine and accelerant' for extremism

Updated On: 18 Dec 2025 | 10:18 PM IST

Malala's coming-of-age memoir offers an unfiltered glimpse into her life

With wisecracks, misadventures, and tales of first love, Malala Yousafzai takes charge of her own story, offering the world an unfiltered glimpse into her life

Updated On: 17 Dec 2025 | 9:45 PM IST

Pax Americana: Why the world needs the US to stay true to its ideals

The world needs an America worthy of its ideals, because the alternative could be brutal authoritarianism

Updated On: 16 Dec 2025 | 10:47 PM IST

Cult building in black and white: How chess became one man's redemption

The book deals in detail with one of the most infamous cheating scandals, with its account of the Hans Niemann - Magnus Carlsen face off in 2022, seen from the perspective of Rensch and Chess.com

Updated On: 15 Dec 2025 | 11:59 PM IST

The Serpent's Tale: A book on Kundalini Yoga's texts and institutions

In its original avatar, Kundalini was a mind-and-body experience that could be achieved under the trained guidance of an expert

Updated On: 13 Dec 2025 | 12:09 AM IST

Letter from Japan: A gentle, well-sourced plea for global domestic life

Yet Ms Kondo's book arrives into a different conversation than the one she helped start a decade ago

Updated On: 11 Dec 2025 | 10:51 PM IST