Books on loneliness can feel like a quiet companion when people drift apart and no one seems to listen. During those moments of disconnection, many turn to literature for solace. In fact, research shows that structured reading programmes and social…
If you think Viking history books are all about raids and longships, you’ve got it all wrong! They are far more complex than how Hollywood has painted them, pulling us into a world of seafaring warriors, sacred rituals, and fierce…
Horror comedy shows are killing it on screen these days. From everyone’s favorite Wednesday to my personal favorite What We Do in the Shadows, it is clear that audiences love a good mix of chills and chuckle. And I’ll have…
Before Katy Perry and her all-female crew mission swept the headlines with their brief, 11-minute commercial cruise to the edge of space, there was another, far more enduring way of commuting into this vast unknown. This age-old mode of transportation…
Across shifting centuries, certain paths stay alive because people continue to return. Many are guided by books on Norse paganism that preserve fragments that never faded. To learn its ways today is to begin quietly, often with reading. Each page…
Severus Snape, the best anti-villain of all time, stirred something deep inside me. Unlike other Potterheads who disliked him in the beginning, I ‘always’ felt drawn to his character. I related to him. Mysterious. Dark. Unseen loyalty. Poker face. The…
I listened to stories about loss before I’d read about them. Devastation falls short of grief, incredibly so with books on miscarriage. If all this grief is displaced love that has no place to go, reading its statistics feels cold…
Think back to a book that touched you, maybe there was a meal tucked in somewhere, shaping the scene. Novels about food work in the same way, and the most loved foodie novels capture those moments of taste and feeling.…
Some books that predicted the future feel less like novels and more like time travelers smuggled into our bookshelves! History, after all, has a strange sense of humor. You might assume that only politicians, scientists, or economists capture what’s going…
A name can be both a gift and a limitation. Throughout history, writers have chosen to set aside the one they were born with and take on another, a name that could move more freely through the world. For some,…