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Editor’s Note:
We are delighted to announce our partnership with The Curious Reader—a brilliant online magazine for avid readers. Each week, its editors will bring you a variety of literary treats guaranteed to delight every book lover's heart—including author interviews, reading lists, curated reads and so much more. So keep your eye on this space!
This Week In Literature
The Curious Reader curates their favourite literary long reads, podcasts, games, and more, to keep you engaged and entertained throughout the week.
- The current protests in America have caused a number of anti-racist book lists to pop up. But what purpose do they serve, and do these lists even help? Read this fiery article to find out.
- The New Yorker has always been our one-stop guide for everything wondrous, and once again, they did not disappoint. Here are two stories—by Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami—for your reading pleasure.
- Who doesn’t enjoy a beautiful book cover? But did you ever wonder about the origin stories of iconic book covers that have stood the test of time? Read about them here, and then promptly add those books to your shopping cart.
- Apple users, rejoice. This “game of literary wordplay” creates puzzles from iconic books like ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Pride And Prejudice’ and will relieve you of your lockdown blues. ($5 a month, but there is a free one-month trial, too)
- Get hooked on the latest episode of the podcast Hooked On Books, where Namita Gokhale talks about Urdu, mythological retellings and her newest baby, ‘Jaipur Journals’.
Books Releasing This Week
- Bad Money: Recently, banks have been falling like ninepins, and we have no idea if our money is safe with them anymore. Vivek Kaul’s book answers this important question, and also shows us how politics in India influences the banking sector. (June 10, 2020)
- Then The Fish Swallowed Him: Amir Ahmadi Arian’s story of an ordinary man who becomes the scapegoat in a union strike that lands him in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, where we learn how people are broken if they don’t submit to the higher powers at play, is a must-read this month. (June 15, 2020)
- RAYA: Krishnadevaraya, the great king of South India, featured as a paragraph in our school history books. Srinivas Reddy’s book, however, paints a vivid and honest picture of a ruler who unified the warring kingdoms of the South and left behind a legacy that remains immortalised in folk literature and art. (June 15, 2020)
- Lazarus: Love psychological thrillers that keep you up at night? You will love the 7th book in this popular series by Lars Kepler, where Superintendent Joona Linna battles a serial killer who enjoys toying with his victims by burying them alive. Intriguing and intense, it will convince you to pick up the other books in the series as well. (June 15, 2020)
- Invertonomics: Want to learn tried and tested methods to reduce poverty, make women safe, manage traffic in the city and solve other major problems plaguing our country? A handy guide from a futurist who believes in practical solutions, Goonmeet Singh Chauhan’s book is well worth your time. (June 15, 2020)
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