This is the ultimate account of the Sultans of Oman, their thrilling lives and political circumstances. The book exemplifies a new kind of history-writing tradition that shifts the gaze away from the Eurocentric narrative of imperialism and capitalism and focuses...
This Sunday, FO° Books features an excerpt from the novel Meru by the acclaimed author, S.B. Divya. This chapter reveals the challenges faced by a group of scientists and artists in a technologically transformed universe, far into the future. With their science and insight into the way their society functions, they seek to solve a series of related problems that require balancing scientific, academic, political and social concerns. The stakes...
Today FO° Books features an excerpt from The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer, a personal account of a very special travel writer’s quest to discover the secret of peace in the places different societies have associated with paradise. Pico Iyer has been called “a secular writer with an eye for the spiritual.” In this excerpt he shares his first impressions of a not very peaceful...
We launch our new feature today: FO° Books. This Sunday, we feature a moving story excerpted from the recently published book, The Blue Women (HarperCollins India), by an outstanding Indian author. The story is about a young university professor’s fragile psyche as she attempts to come to terms with her troubled past.
A passage from "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook introduced me as a "world-renowned historian of the late twentieth century," appearing from what's clearly a nuclear fallout shelter to find that the world of my future has returned to the Stone Age and my now-aged classmates are all dressed in deerskins. With the double-barreled threats of nuclear war and climate change, I try to imagine how the "prophecy"...
Though teeming with contradictions, one coherent theme emerges from Prince Harry’s book—his drive to avenge his mother’s death by fighting the media on his wife’s behalf.
Withdrawal by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad and War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies are two new books that provide essential background missing in most media commentary.
A collaborative book recounts the history of our misunderstanding of history.
