Books

J.K. Rowling's first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, was announced in 2012. The trap only a billion-copy author faces: every new book is a referendum.

March 1, 2012 · 1 min read

When an apple fell on Newton’s head , he did not just eat it to satisfy his hunger , au contraire he used it as an excuse to get into the depth of the…

January 30, 2012 · 4 min read

Psychologist James Pennebaker's 2011 book The Secret Life of Pronouns: what twenty years of text analysis reveal about the hidden inner life of tiny words.

December 28, 2011 · 1 min read

“Our lives are like streams that fall over rocky cliffs before they can reach the ocean” and “then all the struggle and hardship suffered bleeds into a wash…

November 21, 2011 · 3 min read

Parents of gifted children know that schools which fail to meet their children’s academic needs are one of the main reasons their children underachieve…

November 18, 2011 · 4 min read

I went to the doctor because I had a fever, I made a mistake and punched Justin Beiber

October 12, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of felonies for enrolling her daughters in a better school district — one of several such cases.

October 3, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 reader's review of 'Along the Way,' a novel of Indian IT professionals' loves, careers, and compromises — from Andhra campuses to American cubicles.

September 15, 2011 · 1 min read

You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night , sweaty , little out of breath, a tad confused ,maybe you’ve been dreaming ,you have experienced a roller…

September 13, 2011 · 5 min read

From the undeciphered Indus script to Brahmi, Devanagari, Tamil, and Bengali — how India's writing systems evolved over four thousand years.

September 2, 2011 · 2 min read

A reader's review of Jean Sasson's 'Princess' — the ghostwritten story of Princess Sultana and the appalling treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.

August 1, 2011 · 4 min read

Arun Shourie's book on raising his son Aditya carries his wife Anita's wisdom: gratitude for an ordinary, boring, eventless day — a caregiver's creed.

July 11, 2011 · 2 min read

Just like the lotus flower which blooms and opens up its outer petals to reveal the inner whorl , this book also unfolds layers of the saga called…

June 23, 2011 · 3 min read

K.S. Krueger’s debut children’s fantasy — a hidden world of forest Traegons, an ancient prophecy, and an environmental fable done right.

April 15, 2011 · 1 min read

What makes a book on learning how to learn worth reading? Spaced repetition, retrieval practice, and why fluency feels like competence but isn't.

March 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Body promised rapid fat loss through self-experiment. What the 2010 bestseller got right -- and where to be cautious.

February 14, 2011 · 1 min read

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

Purdue researchers found students who quizzed themselves after reading retained 50 percent more a week later than those who re-read or made concept maps.

January 24, 2011 · 1 min read

The children's books that endure — from Where the Wild Things Are to Matilda — and why the best gift is a grown-up willing to read alongside the child.

December 25, 2010 · 1 min read

Part travelogue, part confession: Gregory David Roberts' 2003 epic follows an escaped Australian convict into the slums and underworld of Bombay.

December 12, 2010 · 2 min read