Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned

“Manuscripts don’t burn,” the protagonist of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita is told. This maxim is voiced by Satan, in reference to the Master’s destroyed opus. Having restored it, the devil punishes the man who tipped off the...

Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder Mystery

When it comes to books, I have a few hot buttons. For example, if I come across a book about stories and/or storytelling, I will snatch it up immediately. If a book is set in Afghanistan and its environs, I will be interested, though the harshness...

Book Review | Crime, Love Triangle in the Cantonment

After an eventful tenure as the Army Chief (December 2019 to April 2022), during which China attacked India after contaminating the world with Covid 19 and then got into a heavily armed standoff against Indian Army along the lengthy disputed...

Book review: Debut poetry collections What God Took Your Legs Away and homesick explore love

Book review: The First Fools makes Singapore’s 10 ‘founding fathers’ flesh and blood again

In primary school, this reviewer came into possession of a yellowed sheet of laminated paper, on which the headshots of Singapore’s 10 “founding fathers” were arranged haphazardly. They stared, their expression somewhere between stoic and...

Book Review | Rethink Men’s Roles at Home

Much has been told by feminists of the drudgery of unpaid ‘reproductive labour’. Beauvoir said, “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition.” One wonders what a man’s take would have been on the...

Book Review: Essays on Selected Contemporary Issues in the Nigerian Banking System

Author: Umaru Ibrahim, FCIB, FCIoDN, mni Reviewer: Hashim I. Ahmad(Former director of research NDIC) Financial system serves as a lubricant to the workings of other sectors in any economy. This is because the sector plays an intermediary role by...

Marilyn Monroe ‘could be trouble,’ Jackie Kennedy warned JFK: author

It is widely believed that Jackie Kennedy was no stranger to President John F. Kennedy’s infidelities. But when it came to Marilyn Monroe, it was different, which is why she allegedly confronted her husband. The claim was made by J. Randy...

Dr Anne Walmsley – a true friend of Caribbean art and literature

The book Dr Anne Walmsley co-authored with Stanley Greaves I first met Dr Anne Walmsley in October/November 2010 at the opening reception of Perspectives: Memory and Desire at The Royal Commonwealth Society, London, UK. I was responding to the...

Pago the Dalmatian from Pag inspires a children’s picture book

Pago (Photo credit: Katica Mustapić) A small Dalmatian dog named Pago, who lives on Croatia’s island of Pag, is about to celebrate his third birthday – but he’s already achieved more than most dogs do in a lifetime. When his owner first welcomed...

Out West Books suggests titles covering water and the West

Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Out West Books in Grand Junction recommends a prescient Stegner classic, a whitewater...

Janice Learmond-Criqui set to release relationship guidebook

Janice Learmond-Criqui has never been one to follow a traditional script. A certified professional life coach, she is set to release her book entitled He Said the Right Things but Did He Mean Them–A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the Game,...

Top 5 APJ Abdul Kalam Books that Every Student Should Read

A P J Abdul Kalam was born on October 5, 1931, and took his last breath on July 27, 2015. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam) was fondly known as the 'Missile man of India' was an Indian aerospace scientist and served as the...

Meghan Markle left a 'trail of evidence' so she could 'hijack the narrative' following Megxit, royal author claims

While at long last relations between the Sussexes and the rest of the family appear to be thawing, for the staff that worked under Prince Harry and Meghan Markle the bad blood will likely remain. Indeed, those who worked closest with the couple -...

David Bowie by Denis O’Regan – Book Review

David Bowie by Denis O’Regan Published 22nd July 2025 by ACC Art Books (Hardback 276 pages). Rock photographer Denis O’Regan’s David Bowie book goes beyond the usual tour photography, offering a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of Bowie on and off...

Ozzy Osbourne tell-all book to go ahead as Sharon to make emotional statement

Before Ozzy Osbourne died last week, he had already finished an "uncensored" book about his life. The rockstar died aged 76, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, but he made sure to put pen to paper first. His Last Rites book is set to be...

Book review: Anchorage man details unlikely redemption story in ‘Becoming Ken’

“Becoming Ken: One Black Man’s Journey from Ivy League to Prison and Back Again” By Ken Miller; Thought Leaders Press, 2025; 286 pages; $24. “How did I, an Ivy League graduate from Dartmouth, become a crack-addicted drifter sleeping in a closet,”...

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No More Perfect Housewives: The book that broke the silence

Cathi Hanauer was married to a man she loved, raising a daughter she adored, and sustaining a writing life earned word by word, yet beneath the surface of that carefully stitched domesticity something soured—an unease that never exploded yet...

Ministry of Awqaf releases second book in ‘Ummah Symposium’ research series

THE PENINSULA DOHA: The Islamic Research and Studies Department at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has published the second volume in the “Ummah Symposium” series, under the title: “Our Values... Pillars of Civilization and the Path to...