Book Recommendations

Bill Gates is back with his latest list of book recommendations – this one for summertime reading.

New year, new you

Many works of fiction feature New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. As Juli Zeh’s new novel shows, this can be a time of both despair and hope.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Our detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon releases, a book on making better decisions, listening to podcasts, take a virtual tour to Italy with ‘Land of Wonders’ & much more!

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Our detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon releases, a book on making better decisions, listening to podcasts & much more!

Natasha Brown’s 'Assembly': a small shockwave of a novel

This short, powerful debut explores the world of a character facing issues of race and class in Britain today.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Our detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon releases, a book on making better decisions, listening to podcasts & much more!

Review | 'Stories to Tell': Richard Marx is right here waiting — for respect he's due

Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Burt Bacharach, NSYNC, Julio Iglesias, Josh Groban, Hugh Jackman, Kenny Loggins, Luther Vandross, Paul Anka, SHeDAISY, Philip Bailey and James Ingram — all make cameo appearances in Marx's life, career, and now book. He reveals beefs with Brad Paisley, Clive Davis and Night Ranger and a crush on Olivia Newton-John.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Your detailed guide for all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon releases, make travel plans, or get your inner artist going with a doodle workshop.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Your detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge in over the weekend! This weekend, make the best use of your time by learning Yoga from the experts by registering for the #starttohkaro yoga workshops with sarva yoga & catch up on the new releases on Netflix, Amazon prime & Disney plus.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Your detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge in over the weekend! This weekend, channel your inner singer & make music with Google Arts & Culture Blob Opera & catch up on the new releases on Netflix, Amazon Prime & Zee5.

Ladies & Gentlemen, The Weekend!

Your detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge in over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix and Amazon releases, a book on making better decisions, exploring the Mars and much more!

When the government keeps track of your dreams

Ismail Kadare’s 'The Palace of Dreams' is an allegory of a totalitarian state that examines the dreams of every citizen. It’s both an murky mirror of former circumstances and a far-seeing fable of mass surveillance.

Tribute | Subhadra Sen Gupta, the writer who made history fun for India’s children

The 2015 Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 2020 Tata Trusts Big Little Book Award winner felt that history books turn people into cardboard characters - and if you flesh them out, children will listen and learn.

How Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel is like Edward Hopper’s paintings 

The author’s 'Whereabouts' deals with incidents in the life of a professor in Rome and is shot through with solitude, detachment, and a sense of individuals in the shadows of their pasts.

Book review: An anthology of short stories by women, about (mostly upper-caste Hindu) women

Mainstream and entertaining, the stories in this book will appeal to most people.

Your guide to powerful, emotional books from Australia, circa 2021

Australia's Stella Prize recognises some of the best writing by women authors in the country - here's a look at this year's winner and books that came very close to winning.

Two French novels on the effects of colonialism

New works in English translation by Joseph Andras and Kamel Daoud offer vivid and contrasting accounts of the impact of foreign domination.