Non-Fiction

Samhita Mukhopadhyay knows what she is doing: she is the editor of a well know feminist website, and her book Why dating is ruining your love life sets out to explain the reasons why contemporary dating is based on continuous brainwashing by media, and this, she argues, is done so [more...]

This is the story of how language was first recorded on paper in New Zealand. Prior to Pakeha (white settlers) coming to New Zealand, there was only spoken Maori language. When Pakeha arrived to New Zealand, they brought with them things that the Maori had never seen before: cows, sheep, [more...]

Creative people can be slightly strange. It’s a calling card, look at David Bowie and Frank Zappa. A blog post by the Author Carl King Ten Myths About Introverts, had gone viral. It seemed to hit a massive nerve with a lot of people, myself included. It seemed that there [more...]

In February 1997, a riot shook China to its core which reverberated across the world. This riot, between the Han and Uighur ethnic groups, took place in the town of Yining. At the time, western media were denied entry and relied upon grainy smuggled footage and shaky testimonials.  Eyewitness accounts [more...]

Elif Batuman’s The Possessed is funny, downright hilarious even at times. Like the description of the scholars squabbling over a dinner table at the Babel conference in the opening chapter of the book or the trip to St Petersburg to report about the modern-day replica of Anna Ivanovna’s Ice Palace [more...]