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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

Breakneck: Why China needs to learn to build less and America to build more

Wang is a Canadian citizen who migrated from China at a young age with his parents, and later went on to work in the Silicon Valley

Coffee King: Book on CCD weaves cautionary tale for investors, regulators

In uncovering how CCD was run as a one-man show, this book weaves a cautionary tale for investors, regulators, consumers, and even fellow journalists

The Eleventh Hour review: Salman Rushdie's meditations on mortality

Salman Rushdie's latest work blends fiction, memory, myth, and mortality, offering a deeply personal meditation shaped by near-death, nostalgia, and literary playfulness

A new book reviews the global history of how capitalism took over the world

Sven Beckert's sweeping global history reframes capitalism as a centuries-long, often violent world-making force - rich in detail, ambitious in scope, and certain to provoke debate

The Niche Code: Big power emerges when firms dominate niche spaces

In the race to build a big business, why companies must avoid doing everything moderately well

Scamlands: From Cambodia to Jamtara, a deep dive into global fraud networks

A sharp, immersive look at phone fraud networks, their victims, and the hidden economies that keep them alive

A History of Santiniketan: A university against national chauvinism

Uma Das Gupta's history of Santiniketan traces Tagore's educational vision, the making of Vishva-Bharati, and the challenges that shaped his alternative to nationalist orthodoxy

Indian women voters find their voice, step out of the electoral closet

As political parties continue to scramble to design women-friendly welfare schemes and campaign speeches, women have begun to wield their vote as an instrument of assertion

Voice of the people: Book explains why speeches matter in a democracy

Ms Gupta's selection captures not the speeches alone but the parry and thrust that goes on between the treasury and Opposition benches. CPI (M) leader, late Sitaram Yechury never disrupted parliament

Mind in Motion: A biography of Francis Crick balances his life with science

A balanced yet probing biography traces Francis Crick's brilliant scientific leaps and human flaws, revealing the mind behind DNA's discovery without fully interrogating his more troubling ideas

Girls Who Said Nothing and Everything: A journey towards selfhood

In a sense, the book is a kind of quiet revolution, reclaiming the voice and identity of Indian girls across generations

The Cell and the Soul: Anand Teltumbde's searing account of state power

Mr Teltumbde takes us through his experience inside jail and how it shattered his preconceived notions about imprisonment

Searches: Book explains how we turned to internet to understand ourselves

The strength of Searches, despite its banal moments, lies in the breathing space allowed to each digital experiment without judgments or definitive conclusions

Tangerine: A journey of self and truth shaped by political change

It tells the story of an unexpected journey into Hindu philosophy during a period of personal turmoil

Fascist Yoga: How the West twisted yoga's spirit of peace and wellbeing

How yoga has been appropriated, packaged and sold in the West by people whose political views are divorced from its spirit of peace and wellbeing

The silent enemy redefines security for a world beyond the battlefield

A timely book by Arvind Gupta and Rajesh Singh expands the idea of national security beyond the military to include climate, technology, and economic vulnerabilities

After the Spike: A bold argument for rethinking the demographic doom theory

Why a larger population is better than a smaller population with a higher quality of life

The Shortest History of AI: How the world came to love and fear it

The world has become firmly divided into two camps. One side believes that AI will solve almost all our problems pretty soon. The other worries about the emerging dangers

Wut's in a word? A new book spells out the threats to the dictionary

Fatsis provides an excellent primer on Merriam-Webster's role in the culture wars, with thorough accounts of the dictionary's approach to the N-word, the F-word, "Covid-19" and "woke"