by Aashisha Chakraborty | Oct 20, 2026 | Review
Aashisha reviews the upcoming biography of David Rhoiney No One’s Coming to Save You, releasing on 8 Dec, 2026. No One’s Coming To Save You by Ed William is the true story of David Rhoiney, a boy who spent his childhood in a homeless shelter and grew up to become a...
by Nigel Scotchmer | Oct 17, 2026 | Review
What survives of Sappho is fragments, yet it still burns. An appreciation of the poet who made the personal universal. A fresco in the triclinium, Villa Ariana, Stabia, Italy Come, let me tell you about Sappho’s writing. Her work is daring, mixing the expected with...
by Aashisha Chakraborty | Sep 29, 2026 | Essays, Review
Revisiting a Bombay neighbourhood through Rohinton Mistry’s story collection I have a soft spot for books that engage in storytelling for the sake of it. No plot as such. Just a writer at their desk, writing about people they see through their window. The window this...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jun 2, 2026 | Essays, Review
First a bestseller and now a prestige television series, A Gentleman in Moscow invites us to believe that grace and civility might yet survive the twentieth century’s great undoing. Picture Credits: Amazon Some months ago, I read A Gentleman in Moscow during a...
by Aashisha Chakraborty | Apr 28, 2026 | Essays, Review
About the most forgettable Bennet sister and a retelling of Pride and Prejudice… “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of...
by Aashisha Chakraborty | Mar 31, 2026 | Essays, Review
Talking objects, messy love, art, philosophy, and global conflict. All in one book. “In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.” Over time I have come to believe that the higher the element of fantasy in a book, the more serious it often...