by Peter Scotchmer | Nov 10, 2026 | Review
Peter revisits Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory, a Mississippi odyssey in a 16-foot boat, and the towboat captain who turned out to be the travel writer’s kindred spirit. “A Midnight Race on the Mississippi,” Currier & Ives. Library of Congress. In the course of his...
by Peter Scotchmer | Oct 27, 2026 | Essays, Review
Peter writes a review of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Picture Credit: Wikipedia The Phantom Tollbooth is an amusingly clever and highly engaging children’s story written in 1961 by the American architect Norton Juster about a cure for boredom. Like all...
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 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...