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The wise hours: a journey into the wild and secret world of owls

The wise hours: a journey into the wild and secret world of owls

Miriam Darlington | 2023 | Tin House Books | 9781953534835

Subject: Fiction


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In "The Wise Hours: A Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls," first published in the U.K. in 2018 as "Owl Sense," Miriam Darlington resists what she calls the blandification of owls. Popular culture has tamed them into cuteness, turning them into kitschy collectibles on the shelves of souvenir stores, ornaments on Christmas trees or, thanks to the Harry Potter books, companionable pets. Y...Read More

Unlikely heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, his four lieutenants, and the world they made

Unlikely heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, his four lieutenants, and the world they made

Derek Leebaert | 2023 | St. Martin's Press | 9781250274694

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Students of history may recognize a concept I'll call the Weirdo Theory of Crisis. In times of upheaval and strife, unconventional figures have a way of slipping into power. Such figures are often weirdos though perhaps that's too strong a word. In "Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made," Derek Leebaert prefers "peculiar outsiders," but he uses the term...Read More

Why dance matters

Why dance matters

Mindy Aloff | 2023 | Yale University Press | 9780300204520

Subject: Arts and Culture


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Almost seven-eighths of the way through "Why Dance Matters," her smart, bracing book of reflection, analysis, memoir and history, Mindy Aloff finally admits: "Fundamental to why dancing as a cultural practice persisted over the past forty thousand years or so is surely, at least in part, the pleasure of doing it." Talk about burying the lede! The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote that what we want ...Read More

Win every argument: the art of debating, persuading, and public speaking

Win every argument: the art of debating, persuading, and public speaking

Mehdi Hasan | 2023 | Henry Holt and Co. | 9781250853479

Subject: Leadership


Source: The New York Times

Review: I was reminded of Sedgwick's essay when reading two new books about talking to others: "Win Every Argument," by the MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, and "Say the Right Thing," by the law professors Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Both books are impeccably timed, speaking to a moment when many people find themselves drawn into arguments but also fearful of saying something that will hurt someone or (and) g...Read More

Zig-zag boy: a memoir of madness and motherhood

Zig-zag boy: a memoir of madness and motherhood

Tanya Frank | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393531886

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: When Tanya Frank's otherwise healthy 19-year-old son, Zach, experienced his first psychotic break in 2009, he thought his friends had become members of the Russian Mafia, that his cellphone was bugged, and that his college was a network set up to spy on him, along with the whirring helicopters that seemed to hover over the family's Hollywood Hills home. Frank wondered initially if Zach, an agile s...Read More

America, a redemption story: choosing hope, creating unity

America, a redemption story: choosing hope, creating unity

Senator Tim Scott | 2022 | Thomas Nelson | 9781400236497

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In "America, a Redemption Story," Mr. Scott has compiled a series of stories, mostly autobiographical, that exemplify the virtues of work, forgiveness, courage and self-improvement. The overarching point: Just as an individual can improve through hardship, so can a nation. The book is as much self-help and inspiration as politics and current events, but I don't discount his presidential prospects....Read More

Beyond consumption: India's new middle class in the neo-liberal times

Beyond consumption: India's new middle class in the neo-liberal times

Edited by Manish K Jha and Pushpendra | 2022 | Routledge | 9780367565718

Subject: General


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: There has been much academic focus on the expansion of the middle class in India even as there does not seem to be much concurrence about the various segments of this grouping, especially the ones that actually constitute/represent this social category. Sifting through the scholarly literature on the middle class, it comes across as a "notoriously loose"/"indeterminate social category" with a "que...Read More

Electoral democracy? an inquiry into the fairness and integrity of elections in India

Electoral democracy? an inquiry into the fairness and integrity of elections in India

Edited by M G Devasahayam | 2022 | AuthorsUpFront | 9798885250986

Subject: Political Science


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Electoral Democracy? An Inquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India is a book that highlights key issues regarding the deteriorating electoral system in India and suggests changes in policies and processes. The book has emerged out of the work of the Citizens' Commission on Elections (CCE), a nine-member group comprising jurists, academics, activists, journalists, and former civi...Read More

Reworking culture relatedness, rites, and resources in the Garo hills, North East India

Reworking culture relatedness, rites, and resources in the Garo hills, North East India

Erik De Maaker | 2022 | Oxford University Press | 9788194831693

Subject: Arts and Culture


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Erik De Maaker combines his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, done over two decades, and observations on the Garos and their culture, in the book, Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India. The central arguments of this study deconstruct the essentialist and exoticisation of indigenous people. It looks into what constitutes indigeneity, while bringing for...Read More

The agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world

The agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world

Glenn Davis Stone | 2022 | Routledge | 9781032260457

Subject: Agriculture


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: lenn Davis Stone draws on anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) to present a book that unpacks the myths of the science and technology establishment, the agribusiness industries and corporates, and conniving governments have deployed to promote and make industrial agriculture or, more recently, industrial chemical agriculture (ICA) the hegemonic form of agriculture across the world...Read More

Translating myself and others

Translating myself and others

Jhumpa Lahiri | 2022 | Princeton University Press | 9780691244785

Subject: General


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Translating Myself and Others is a deep meditation on the art of translation by eminent writer Jhumpa Lahiri. In the opening chapter, the author tells the reader about her early life, different locations and languages that shaped her, and her obsession with the Italian language. Lahiri moved to Italy in 2011. However, she did not publish a single novel in English after The Lowland (2013), which as...Read More

A reflection on Sraffa's revolution in economic theory

A reflection on Sraffa's revolution in economic theory

Ajit Sinha, Palgrave Macmillan | 2021 | Springer | 9783030472061

Subject: General


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: No revolution in economic theory has been quieter and more explosive than that sparked by the publication of Piero Sraffa's slim volume Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, in 1960. Using linear algebra, the author sought no less than to solve conundrums in classical theory, as well as set up a research programme in political economy. Over time, the economics of Sraffa settled into a...Read More

City of shadows: slums and informal work in Bangalore

City of shadows: slums and informal work in Bangalore

S RoyChowdhury | 2021 | Cambridge University Press | 9781108989930

Subject: Economics


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Most discussions on urban poverty get quickly framed as issues of urban governance or infrastructure delivery to the poor, like housing, water, sanitation, and healthcare while sidestepping the core issue of wages. City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore gets to the crux of the issue of wages as driving urban poverty?that the urban poor who find work in the informal economy find jobs...Read More

Industrialisation for employment and growth in India: lessons from small firm clusters and beyond

Industrialisation for employment and growth in India: lessons from small firm clusters and beyond

R Nagaraj | 2021 | Cambridge University Press | 9781108935920

Subject: Entrepreneurship


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The manufacturing sector occupies a special place in the theory and practice of economic development and structural change. Historical experience as well as economic theory strongly suggest that sustained increases in per capita income occur only after the manufacturing sector reaches a certain critical size in terms of the share of GDP as well as employment. Compared to agriculture, construction ...Read More

Mobility as capability: women in the informal economy

Mobility as capability: women in the informal economy

Nikhila Menon | 2021 | Cambridge University Press | 9781108870924

Subject: Economics


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Afalling labour force participation rate in India for women has been a cause for concern over the last few decades; underlying this concern is the retreat of women from paid work into the private site of the home tied to reproductive labour. This phenomenon is bemoaned attributing greater agency to women who participate in paid work outside the home. Nikhila Menon's book, however, rooted in a stud...Read More

Tailspin: the politics of India-China economic relations

Tailspin: the politics of India-China economic relations

Edited by Aravind Yelery and Mrudul Nile | 2021 | Routledge | 9781003231660

Subject: International Relations


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: In international relations theory, "India-China relations are looked at in a prism of "complex interdependence", giving primacy to economics or economic relations in the conduct of interstate politics. It is akin to "antagonistic interdependence" (Tay 2010) involving cooperation, competition, and conflict. Therefore, India-China economic relations reflect as a microcosm of multilayered interaction...Read More

The indentured archipelago: experiences of Indian labour in Mauritius and Fiji

The indentured archipelago: experiences of Indian labour in Mauritius and Fiji

Reshaad Durgahee | 2021 | Cambridge University Press | 9781316512265

Subject: International Relations


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The Indian indenture trade was one of the most important labour movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bound by five-year labour contracts, more than a million Indian labourers migrated to plantation colonies across the world (particularly the Indian Ocean and Caribbean region) between 1837 and 1916. The indenture trade and the experiences of indentured Indians have been studied extensive...Read More

Universalising healthcare in India: from care to coverage

Universalising healthcare in India: from care to coverage

Edited by Imrana Qadeer | 2021 | Springer | 9789811658723

Subject: Healthcare


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in books on the subject of public health and healthcare as we are living in the deadliest health crisis of modern times. But the edited volume, Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage, gives a close look at the critical issues plaguing health systems in the country and attempts to - answer the questions of "how" and "why" of the India's he...Read More

A hygienic city-nation: space, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta

A hygienic city-nation: space, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta

Nabaparna Ghosh | 2020 | Cambridge University Press | 9781108779654

Subject: Enviornment


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: It is a book on colonial Calcutta. And "colonial Calcutta" is a subject on which scholarship is unending. One lands at the thickly stuffed shelves of the National Library or the hordes of annals preserved at the Town Hall of Calcutta. The history of colonial Calcutta has been researched and written by many authors from different perspectives, both in Bengali and English, and also in other language...Read More

International toleration: a theory

International toleration: a theory

Pietro Maffettone | 2020 | Routledge | 9780367442521

Subject: International Relations


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: In the past three decades, the career of "liberalism as a political ideology and as a normative theory" has oscillated between hegemonic trium-phalism on the one hand and erosion of legitimacy on the other. The ongoing war in Ukraine once again exposes the illegitimacy of the liberal democratic project to offer a credible political opposition to the imperial expansionism of Russia. Against this hi...Read More

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