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After the miracle: the political crusades of Helen Keller

After the miracle: the political crusades of Helen Keller

Max Wallace | 2023 | Grand Central Publishing | 9781538707685

Subject: Political Science


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: The Helen Keller that America loved was on display at New York's Palace Theatre in 1920. Keller, whose sight and hearing were destroyed by an infection when she was an infant, had become a media sensation celebrated by presidents and tycoons. Now she was being advertised as "The Most Talked of Woman in the World! Blind, deaf, and formerly dumb," in "The Sweetest Love Story Ever Told."...Read More

An honourable exit

An honourable exit

Eric Vuillard | 2023 | Picador | 9781035003976

Subject: History


Source: Financial Times

Review: The 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the first time a non-European colonial independence movement was able to drive out a modern western occupier. Not that the French hadn't been warned. Ho Chi Minh barely receives a mention in "ric Vuillard's new novel An Honourable Exit, which is more concerned with denouncing colonial abuses in French Indochina than hailing the art of war. Vuillard begins in Ju...Read More

Because time does not heal

Because time does not heal

Sahar Gharachorlou | 2023 | The Browser | 9789392210105

Subject: General


Source: The Times of India

Review: Gharachorlou shares 10 case studies of Past Life Regression therapies that she did and the lessons. Have you wondered why you keep facing the same problems in life again and again? Have you ever felt a sense of deja vu- Or do certain people or places make you feel strange at times? In this book, Gharachorlou writes about Past Life Regression therapy, and how it can help one heal and find answers t...Read More

Biography of a phantom: a Robert Johnson blues odyssey

Biography of a phantom: a Robert Johnson blues odyssey

Robert Mack McCormick | 2023 | Smithsonian Books | 9781588347343

Subject: Biography


Source: The New York Times

Review: In the obsessive world of blues scholarship, the tyrannical figure has long been Mack McCormick and the unseen masterpiece his biography of Robert Johnson (1911-38), some five decades in the reporting and writing. Like a carton of cigarettes, "Biography of a Phantom" comes wrapped in advisories. Whether because of mental illness or moral turpitude, McCormick did bad things, it is explained. He's t...Read More

Bollywood, box office and beyond: the evolving business of Indian cinema

Bollywood, box office and beyond: the evolving business of Indian cinema

Lata Jha | 2023 | Rupa & Co | 9789355209825

Subject: Media


Source: The Times of India

Review: Through her book, Jha chronicles the behind-the-scenes struggles and workings in India's entertainment ecosystem. Bollywood is one of the largest film industries in the world, and Indian films are watched and loved by viewers worldover. So how has it changed in the last 100 years? What are the technological advancements seen in film making today? How has the content changed and what does it reflec...Read More

Defeating the dictators: how democracy can prevail in the age of the strongman

Defeating the dictators: how democracy can prevail in the age of the strongman

Charles Dunst | 2023 | Hodder & Stoughton | 9781399704441

Subject: Political Science


Source: Financial Times

Review: Charles Dunst's new book, Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman, offers a programme for revitalisation of troubled democracies. At a time when much rhetoric in the US is focused on the international arena, Dunst is surely right to emphasise the importance of democratic regeneration at home. After all, "victory" in the cold war was achieved not through force...Read More

Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you: a memoir

Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you: a memoir

Lucinda Williams | 2023 | Crown | 9780593136492

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: The often hilarious, occasionally harrowing "Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You" is a bracingly candid chronicle of a sui generis character plotting a ramshackle but ultimately triumphant trajectory. "I don't want it to be one of those sugarcoated books like you find at Walgreens, she says in a brief intro. I want them to see the truth. Ms. Williams's freewheeling story concludes with a lis...Read More

Friends with benefits: the India-US story

Friends with benefits: the India-US story

Seema Sirohi | 2023 | HarperCollins | 9789356295902

Subject: International Relations


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Review: Seema Sirohi's book chronicles three decades of India-US ties, beginning with the early 1990s to the present. As an Indian journalist based in the United States of America, she had a ringside seat, though not with a complete view, as the Indo-US bilateral relationship shed the "hesitations of history" and moved to a wider, deeper, warmer but prickly partnership. Sirohi's work details the ebb and f...Read More

In the orchard: a novel

In the orchard: a novel

Eliza Minot | 2023 | Knopf Books | 9780307593474

Subject: Fiction


Source: The New York Times

Review: In Eliza Minot's compassionate and lyrical new novel, "In the Orchard", Maisie Moore is acutely aware of this conflict. "In the Orchard" is warmer and sunnier than most motherhood novels I've read in recent years, taking a gentler and more firmly realist approach than Szilvia Molnar's "The Nursery" or Rachel Yoder's "Nightbitch," which examine similar themes. Though financial anxiety provides one ...Read More

Losing music

Losing music

John Cotter | 2023 | Milkweed Editions | 9781571311948

Subject: Biography


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. It is hard to imagine a more devastating loss than that for a writer. John Cotter's "Losing Music" is his moving account of what it has entailed. Many of us whose hearing is intact will realize we hav...Read More

Mixed signals: how incentives really work

Mixed signals: how incentives really work

Uri Gneezy | 2023 | Yale University Press | 9780300255539

Subject: Organisational Behaviour


Source: Financial Times

Review: This is a book about how to avoid such mixed signals - particularly within a business or work environment - which lead to conflict between what people say and what their incentives signal. The book outlines how to create what the author calls a middle ground, where these signals and incentives can be better aligned and lead to better outcomes. Mixed signals that can cause problems include encourag...Read More

Moscow exile: a Joe Wilderness novel

Moscow exile: a Joe Wilderness novel

John Lawton | 2023 | Atlantic Monthly Press | 9780802158024

Subject: Fiction


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: John Lawton's reputation as one of the best authors of espionage fiction is burnished by "Moscow Exile." The action here stretches from the 1920s (fleetingly) to 1969, jumping between London, New York, Washington and Moscow, with pit stops in Beirut and Athens. Officially this is the fifth entry in Mr. Lawton's series starring the British spy known as Joe Wilderness, but before Joe steps on stage,...Read More

Night vision: seeing ourselves through dark moods

Night vision: seeing ourselves through dark moods

Mariana Alessandri | 2023 | Princeton University Press | 9780691215457

Subject: Psychology


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods," the philosopher Mariana Alessandri offers a very different understanding of clinical mood disorders, one that at first seems like bad news but ultimately proves comforting, even uplifting. Far from being disproportionate reactions to life's curve balls, Ms. Alessandri argues, dark moods are entirely appropriate responses to the human conditio...Read More

Salvage this world: a novel

Salvage this world: a novel

Michael Farris Smith | 2023 | Little, Brown and Company | 9780316413633

Subject: Fiction


Source: The New York Times

Review: In "Salvage This World," Michael Farris Smith bolsters his reputation as an intoxicating literary stylist. For Southern writers (Smith is from Mississippi), a comparison to Cormac McCarthy can be both an honor and an act of oppression, but McCarthy is an unavoidable point of reference for the bleak elegance of Smith's prose. In this environment, families aren't so much broken as they are razed, an...Read More

Seventy times seven: a true story of murder and mystery

Seventy times seven: a true story of murder and mystery

Alex Mar | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780525522157

Subject: Fiction


Source: The New York Times

Review: For a culture with a simmering anger problem, we spend a lot of time preoccupied with forgiveness: From 12-step programs advocating amends, to asana yoga classes dedicated to radical compassion, to forgiveness spells available for purchase on Etsy, we are regularly reminded that personal growth requires us to forgive. But what does that word even mean? And what does it look like in practice? By wa...Read More

Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture

Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture

Andreas Wagner | 2023 | Oneworld Publications | 9780861545278

Subject: General


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In his new book, Mr. Wagner, a professor at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, showcases biological "sleeping beauties": animals, plants, even bacteria that for generations plugged along with modest evolutionary success, only to later flourish spectacularly. "Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture" expl...Read More

Small mercies: a novel

Small mercies: a novel

Dennis Lehane | 2023 | HarperCollins | 9780062129482

Subject: Fiction


Source: The New York Times

Review: The book has all the hallmarks of Lehane at his best: a propulsive plot, a perfectly drawn cast of working-class Boston Irish characters, razor-sharp wit and a pervasive darkness through which occasional glimmers of hope peek out like snowdrops in early spring. Throughout the novel, real people and events make cameos, like Louise Day Hicks, who led the antibusing group Restore Our Alienated Rights...Read More

Staying the distance: the lessons from sport that business leaders have been missing

Staying the distance: the lessons from sport that business leaders have been missing

Catherine Baker | 2023 | Bloomsbury Publishing | 9781399405850

Subject: Leadership


Source: Financial Times

Review: Staying the Distance is a manual for leaders seeking a more sustainable way to achieve long-term goals and how to get the best out of those they lead. Starting with six steps to enable managers to master key attitudes, approaches and behaviours that drive longstanding success - such as discipline and finding sustained motivation - Baker, an expert in blending business and sports expertise to drive...Read More

The 24-hour rule and other secrets for smarter organizations: including the 6 steps of dynamic documentation

The 24-hour rule and other secrets for smarter organizations: including the 6 steps of dynamic documentation

Adrienne Bellehumeur | 2023 | Matt Holt | 9781637742839

Subject: Organisational Behaviour


Source: Financial Times

Review: Some business books you can read for pleasure. Others you read to get something done. The 24 Hour Rule definitely provides the latter, but is written in an accessible way that encourages those of us who feel buried in unnecessary emails, receipts, memos and spreadsheets. Essentially, the "24-Hour Rule" is about doing something with any information you receive within 24 hours. It forms one part of ...Read More

The anxious achiever: turn your biggest fears into your leadership superpower

The anxious achiever: turn your biggest fears into your leadership superpower

Morra Aarons-Mele | 2023 | Harvard Business Review | 9781647822538

Subject: Leadership


Source: Financial Times

Review: Morra Aarons-Mele has herself achieved a lot, having moved through several senior marketing roles to founding a communications consultancy business helping to engage women online through social media, and several years as a public speaker. This guide has grown out of a successful podcast on the subject of being an "anxious achiever". Aarons-Mele also admits to being a leader with "chronic, clinica...Read More

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