Romzanul Islam 
Nobody’s Girl is the life-sized account of how a Florida teenager with a history of abuse was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell outside the Mar-a-Lago spa and drawn into Jeffrey Epstein’s … Read more
When democracies backslide, they rarely fall with a bang—they soften, then sag, and then one day you wake up and your voice has been outsourced to fear. On Tyranny condenses … Read more
How Democracies Die — Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt (Crown, 2018) is a comparative-political diagnosis of democratic backsliding, rooting the danger in the erosion of norms and the failure of … Read more
Most of us weren’t taught the emotional “basics” at school; Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? solves that gap with a therapist’s toolkit you can actually use on bad … Read more
We all know the stock market crashed in 1929, plunging the world into the Great Depression. But what we don’t know is the gripping, human drama of the flawed men … Read more
Grief scrambles memory and meaning; love promises to reorder both. Remain solves a pain almost everyone knows: how to live through loss without letting go of the one you lost. … Read more
This twisty medical-tech thriller tackles a painfully modern problem: what grief does to good people—and how power exploits that grief when money, data, and bodies are on the line. A … Read more
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke is a non-fiction, science-grounded exploration of how dopamine drives addiction—from smartphones to substances—and how to practice dopamine fasting and self-binding to restore a healthy pleasure–pain … Read more
If the 2024 race felt like whiplash, 107 Days by Kamala Harris solves a simple problem: how to understand what really happened inside a 107-day, history-defining campaign—without spin, without guesswork. … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered what survival really means when every variable is outside your control, Hostage by Eli Sharabi is the manual, the memory, and the moral argument we didn’t … Read more
Washington runs on soundbites and shortcuts; How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will is Senator John Kennedy’s unapologetic manual for resisting both—while showing why the capital … Read more
Twice by Mitch Albom is the kind of modern love story that asks a dangerous question—what if you could redo any moment once?—and then follows the human heart to its … Read more
We’re busy, successful, and secretly starving for meaning, and Tuesdays with Morrie solves that by translating end-of-life clarity into everyday choices we can actually live by. Instead of self-help clichés, … Read more
Every generation loves to think of itself as unique—and often, as uniquely burdened. Millennials claim they were cheated by housing bubbles and student debt. Gen Z blames social media and … Read more
Modern life feels like a fast-forward blur of meaningless work, overconsumption, and shallow connections. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland doesn’t offer a solution—it offers recognition, … Read more
About 22 miles (roughly 35 kilometers) northwest of central Seoul, the satellite city of Paju moves to a quieter rhythm. The air is cleaner, traffic thins, and the soundtrack of … Read more
You think you know what a “hunting novel” is—until the prey isn’t the point, the hunters aren’t in charge, and the land itself is the real protagonist. Grass solves the … Read more
Every now and then, a local story reminds us why books—quiet, old-school, paper books—still matter. In India’s Mithila region, a man named Amal Kumar Jha reportedly claims to have read … Read more
Infertility, trust, and ambition collide—and then someone dies, leaving a working couple trapped in a tightening net of suspicion and lies. This psychological thriller asks a brutal question: what would … Read more
Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity is a sweeping, idea-dense work that asks a deceptively simple question with enormous consequences for policy, technology, biodiversity, and everyday conduct: how should we … Read more
If your economy, company, or career feels stuck, The Power of Creative Destruction shows why purposeful churn—not safety—drives lasting prosperity, and how to harness it rather than fear it. When … Read more
Modern prosperity didn’t arrive because factories suddenly sprouted; it emerged because a culture made the pursuit and sharing of useful knowledge both honorable and inevitable. In A Culture of Growth, … Read more
What happens when a decent man convinces himself that the No Other Choice title is not a metaphor but a moral alibi? Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice (2025)—a satirical, black-comic … Read more
Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is more than a royal memoir; it’s a meticulous reckoning with grief, identity, love, the press, and the cost of duty. If you’ve … Read more
Venezuelan democratic opposition leader María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on October 10, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights” and push … Read more
What if the most shattering film of 2025 is not about the playwright’s genius, but about the private grief that forged it? Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet (2025) arrives as a historical … Read more
Grief is the riddle most families never solve; Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell turns that riddle into a life-sized map of loss, art, and the strange bargains love makes with death. … Read more
We grow up believing creativity and love are quests with fixed endpoints, but Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow shows how making—and remaking—games, art, and selves is really an infinite respawn. … Read more
The Woman in Me shows how a world-famous woman could be legally silenced and commercially exploited while the public looked on, and how she reclaimed a voice that the system … Read more
I’m Glad My Mom Died isn’t just a celebrity memoir; it’s a manual for naming abuse, reclaiming a body, and rebuilding a self. Its problem-to-solve is brutal and universal: how … Read more