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History in Limbo

The uproar over a former army chief’s unpublished memoir is less about one book and more about how a democracy negotiates the uneasy space between national security, political accountability, and historical truth.

“A dark novel: both moving and harrowing”

The tautologous title and two and half pages of acknowledgements serve to advertise the fact that this is a first novel by the author, something underlined by the redundant words ‘a novel’ on the front cover following the title.

Deeper realms of human psyche

Jayanthi Sankar is an internationally award-winning author based in Singapore. Her fourth book, When Will You Die? is a novella that explores the depths of the human psyche.

Covid and four crises

Below the surface of geopolitical rivalry, medical chaos, social protests and distress and growing climate disasters lie deeper issues that this book explores. Chapter 1 on the Great Transformation dissects the deep schism between two Austria-Hungarian thinkers who shaped market ideology for the rest of the 20th century.