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Romzanul Islam

Romzanul Islam is a proud Bangladeshi writer, researcher, and cinephile. An unconventional, reason-driven thinker, he explores books, film, and ideas through stoicism, liberalism, humanism and feminism—always choosing purpose over materialism.

Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Powerful Story of Love Against All Odds

Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Desertion is a critically acclaimed novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Gurnah, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2021), is celebrated for his profound portrayals … Read more

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Masterpiece That Will Change How You See Colonial History

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Masterpiece That Will Change How You See Colonial History

Afterlives is a 2020 novel by Nobel Prize–winning Tanzanian-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah, published by Bloomsbury. Set against the turbulent backdrop of German colonial East Africa in the early 20th century, … Read more

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Must-Read for Lovers of Historical Fiction

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK, stands as one of the most significant works in postcolonial literature. This novel, which earned a … Read more

Arrow of God (1964): The Untold Truth About Ezeulu’s Rise and Fall in Achebe’s Masterpiece

Arrow of God: The Untold Truth About Ezeulu’s Rise

Arrow of God, written by Chinua Achebe and published in 1964 by Heinemann as part of the African Writers Series, is the third and final instalment of his African Trilogy … Read more

No Longer at Ease: A Powerful Tale of Corruption and Cultural Conflict

No Longer at Ease: A Powerful Tale of Corruption and Cultural Conflict

No Longer at Ease, written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and first published in 1960 by Heinemann, is the second novel in Achebe’s African Trilogy, positioned between Things Fall Apart … Read more

Things Fall Apart: The Bright and Dark Truths Achebe Reveals

Things Fall Apart: The Bright and Dark Truths Achebe Reveals

Things Fall Apart, first published on 17 June 1958 by Heinemann, is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The book quickly became a cornerstone of modern African literature, … Read more

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse – A Poetic Journey Through Life’s Harshest Realities And Hidden Beauty of His Masterpiece

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse

Morning and Evening is a poignant novel by Norwegian Nobel Laureate author Jon Fosse, originally published in 2000 as Morgon og kveld and translated into English by Damion Searls in … Read more

Is The Vegetarian the Most Powerful Story You’ve Never Heard of? Here’s Why It Should Be

The Vegetarian the Most Powerful Story You’ve Never Heard of? Here’s Why It Should Be

The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a South Korean novel that was first published in 2007 and later translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. The book quickly garnered … Read more

The Hunger Angel — How Herta Müller Conveys the True Horror of Forced Labor Camps

The Hunger Angel — How Herta Müller Conveys the True Horror of Forced Labor Camps

The Hunger Angel (original title: Der Hungerengel) is a novel written by Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German author and Nobel Laureate in Literature. Published in 2009, it follows the life … Read more

Sandalwood Death (2013): Mo Yan’s Unflinching Look at Power and Humanity

Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan review

Sandalwood Death (Chinese: 檀香刑), written by Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan in 2001, is a historical novel that combines folk opera, political upheaval, and personal tragedy. The English translation by … Read more

Justice, Power & Philosophy: The Republic by Plato in 2025 Terms

The Republic by Plato in 2025 Terms

The Republic by Plato is a timeless philosophical masterpiece that explores the nature of justice, the ideal structure of society, and the moral development of the human soul. Written as … Read more

Feeling Lost? Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Might Just Save You

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Might Just Save Yo

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is widely regarded as one of the 20 best philosophy books ever written. Revered not just by historians but by modern-day entrepreneurs, scholars, and spiritual seekers, … Read more

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang: A Shocking Literary Heist that Exposes the Ugly Truths of Publishing

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface is a critically acclaimed 2023 satirical novel by the award-winning Chinese-American author R.F. Kuang, published on May 16, 2023, by HarperCollins. The novel explores themes of plagiarism, racism, cultural … Read more

Algospeak (2025) Explained: How Social Media Algorithms Influence Language Evolution and Understanding the Language of Social Media Algorithms

Algospeak Explained

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic delves into the powerful intersection of language and social media, revealing how the rise of algorithms has … Read more

Why 12 Rules for Life is the Ultimate Guide to Personal Transformation

12 Rules for Life is the Ultimate Guide

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos was written by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and first published in 2018 by Random House Canada. The author is a renowned clinical … Read more

God Is Dead: Nietzsche’s Radical Idea That Changed Modern Thought, An Analysis of Nietzsche’s Magnum Opus

God Is Dead: Nietzsche’s Radical Idea That Changed Modern Thought

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him by Friedrich Nietzsche is a compilation of his most striking philosophical ideas, especially from The Gay Science (1882) and … Read more

The Hidden Life of Trees That Exposes Nature’s Most Beautiful Secret And Emotional and Social Lives of Forests (2015)

The Hidden Life of Trees review 2025

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, first published in German in 2015 and translated to English … Read more

The Idiot by Dostoevsky: The Tragic Beauty Behind Prince Myshkin’s Innocence

The Idiot by Dostoevsky review

The Idiot (Идиот), written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The novel spans 659 pages in its original Russian text and … Read more

Lessons in Chemistry (2022): Why Elizabeth Zott Is Your New Role Model

Lessons in Chemistry: Why Elizabeth Zott Is Your New Role Model

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, first published on April 5, 2022 by Doubleday, is a tragicomedy novel set in 1960s Southern California. It is Garmus’s debut novel. Garmus, a … Read more

Surrounded by Idiots Book Review: Why This Bestseller Can Transform Your Relationships

Surrounded by Idiots Book Review

Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson is a 2014 Swedish nonfiction work, first published in English by St. Martin’s Essentials in July 2019. It quickly became a bestseller in more … Read more

Those Who Live Without Discipline Die Without Honor Could Save or Sabotage Your Life

Those Who Live Without Discipline Die Without Honor Could Save or Sabotage Your Life

Those Who Live Without Discipline Die Without Honor: Quick Lessons to Develop Unshakable Discipline and Realize Your Potential is a motivational and self‑improvement book written by Modern Arjuna, a contemporary … Read more

Necronomicon: The Most Dangerous Book in Horror Literature Revealed

Necronomicon: The Most Dangerous Book in Horror Literature Revealed

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, commemorative edition (2008), is a collection of Lovecraft’s most influential and terrifying stories, all linked to the legendary Necronomicon, the fictional “Book … Read more

Why The Turner Diaries Is Called the Bible of the Racist Right

The Turner Diaries Is Called the Bible of the Racist Right, why

Few novels in modern history have achieved the notoriety and dark influence of The Turner Diaries, written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald and first published in … Read more

The Anarchist Cookbook: The Infamous and Dangerous Book That Shook the World

The Anarchist Cookbook

The book “The Anarchist Cookbook”, authored by William Ralph Powell, was first published in January 1971 by Lyle Stuart. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the most controversial and … Read more

Germania by Tacitus: The Brilliant Yet Dangerous Book That Shaped European Identity

Germania by Tacitus: The Brilliant Yet Dangerous Book That Shaped European Identity

The work, commonly known as Germania, bears the full Latin title De origine et situ Germanorum (On the Origin and Situation of the Germans). It was written by Publius Cornelius … Read more

The Communist Manifesto Explained: History, Quotes, and Why It’s One of the Most Dangerous Books Ever Written

The Communist Manifesto Explained: History, Quotes, and Why It’s One of the Most Dangerous Books Ever Written

The book is “The Communist Manifesto” (1848), co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and originally titled in German as “Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.” It was first published on 21 … Read more

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1964): History, Lessons, and the Dark Side of a Revolution

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Red Guards reading Mao’s Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung-The Little Red Book

The Shocking Truth About The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: History’s Most Dangerous Hoax

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The book under discussion is The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, also widely known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its authorship remains anonymous, though historical … Read more

The Untold Power of Rights of Man: How Paine Changed the World Forever

Rights of Man, written by Thomas Paine review 2025

Rights of Man, written by Thomas Paine, was first published in 1791 (Part I) and 1792 (Part II) during one of the most turbulent political periods in European history. The … Read more

The Hammer of Witches- Malleus Maleficarum: Dark Lessons from the World’s Most Dangerous Book

The Hammer of Witches- Malleus Maleficarum

Malleus Maleficarum, also widely known as The Hammer of Witches, was authored by Heinrich Kramer (Henricus Institoris), a German Catholic clergyman and inquisitor, and first published in Speyer in 1486. … Read more

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