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Michael Gordin in Aeon : Absolute English . "How did science come to speak only English?" Noah Berlatsky in Pacific Standard : Wh...

Must-read essay of the week: Stephen Marche in The Guardian : Centireading force: why reading a book 100 times is a great idea . Brought bac...

The English translation of a Tamil novel finds itself in a limbo because the translator and the publisher do not like the political views o...

“I no longer have the confidence that Penguin will stand by my book,” Mr. Varadarajan, a journalist and former editor of The Hindu newspaper...

If you set up a marketplace of outrage you have to expect everyone to enter it. Everyone now wants to say, ‘My feelings are more hurt than y...

Three of my popular science books in Tamil language have been published now by Tamizhini and Amrutha publishers. Details with links to Int...

ToI has an AFP story on the war course packs unleashed by the Cambridge University Press, the Oxford University Press, and Taylor & F...

A gorgeous new website now hosts this classic! Enjoy . * * * The other two volumes will also presumably go online -- but I haven't se...

The book by Robin Sloan is a wild ride of a crass-free, violence-free, coitus-free, murder-less, humorous, 'unputdownable' treasure...

Atul Gawande: Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t? Rex at Savage Minds : How to explain anthrop...

In What I learned about Partition in The Tribune , he writes: I had to wait till college to satiate my curiosity about Partition because t...

Blindness is tragic, deafness is comic. That is the premise Deaf Sentence , the latest by the British author David Lodge, begins with. The f...

Exams are over for the kid. Obvious that for the continuance of World peace it is imperative that I should attend to her vacation needs. The...

London based publishers Prion have sometime now been re-publishing most of the classics from around fifty to hundred years back, from the s...

For those unaware of it, the 36th Chennai annual book fair is on during this and next week (until 23rd Jan, 2013). Location: YMCA Physic...

The Humorist, P. G. Wodehouse has written over a hundred books, most of which have remained popular crossing three generations, even today....

I like essays. Even the entirely fictional ones. I like the most, essays that blur the difference between fiction and non-fiction. They are...

Julie Mitchell in CHE Conversations Blog : Sexy in STEM? The Telescoper: To Hype or Not To Hype? -- a detached approach to blogging that ...

Ruskin Bond is one of the Indian authors who writes in English; well. His English is not strained and doesn't read 'translated'...

Stefanie Cohen in WSJ : Fourscore and 16000 Books : There are already over 16000 books about President Abraham Lincoln -- there will be 20 m...