Book Review

Book Review | Stigma and survival in Bani Basu’s ‘A Plate of White Marble’

Bengali scholar Bani Basu's novel 'A Plate of White Marble' – first published in 1990 in the original Bengali as Swet Patharer Thala – gives English readers their first authentic taste of a stunning literary classic.

Book Review: Debut short stories that mirror internal and external lives

While The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook displays a variety of engagements with the external world, frequently mediated through the Internet, Shruti Swamy’s A House Is A Body explores facets of internal lives.

Book review: Nir Eyal and Julie Li offer some fine-grained tips to stay focused

The unique self-help book excels in explaining why we get distracted so easily.

A philosopher and a novelist reflect on the pandemic

Two short, dissimilar books by philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and novelist Zadie Smith are vistas of our changed lives.

Review | Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo's new book presents poverty and migration in new light

Banerjee and Duflo, along with fellow economist Michael Kremer, brought an experimental approach to economics to focus on poverty, and in particular, how the poor make decisions. This approach,while popular in medical research, is a pioneering effort on part of the Nobel prize winners to use randomized control trials in economic studies.

Offices without bosses? Achievable, says book by IIM Prof

According to Ram Mohan, the inability to harness employee talent, outsized executive pay, and ineffective boards have become all too pervasive today and threaten the very existence of companies

Book review: Eliot Spitzer's capitalist manifesto

The book portrays Spitzer as theorist, politician and lawyer, a man who can develop a big vision of what society should be, link it to nitty-gritty policy minutiae, and deliver it.

Doing what is right: The Crisil Story

What started off as India's first credit rating agency, twenty-five years later has turned into a Rs 8 billion global analytical company providing ratings, research and risk and policy advisory services.

'Boats on Land': Folkloric traditions from the northeast

Janice Pariat often wanted to interweave the mundane and the surreal, the apparent reality of daily life with the folkloric and her debut book of stories attempts to portray the way in which many different "realities" co-exist in the northeast, from where she hails.