A literary journey across a sunburned land where absurdity and beauty collide. Bill Bryson and the Art of Wonder There are few writers who can turn absentminded curiosity into an art form. Bill Bryson belongs to that rare tribe. His sentences are like river stones: smooth, flowy, funny, yet quietly weighted with a genuine reverence … Read more
An extraordinary glimpse into the fragility of power and the strength of restraint Being the Accidental Witness: The Unlikely Beginning In the era of encrypted communication, where every conversation floats through a sea of vulnerabilities, one story stands out not because of grand espionage, but because of a quiet accident. Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The … Read more
How Divakaruni unfurls a forgotten banner—and why its fabric feels startlingly like our own skin. Dawn in a Room of Rusted Maps “The Last Queen review” must begin, I suppose, with a confession: I first met Rani Jindan Kaur not on a battlefield or a museum label but in a friend’s bookshelf, where my friend … Read more