Book review
Is a Sino-American synthesis possible?
If you want to know what is driving today’s China or America, Chinese-Canadian analyst Dan Wang’s new book is an indispensable guide
Book review: The Making of Modern Corporate Finance
The book is a love letter to unfettered capitalism
Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’: Love, loss and lingering regret
The world’s most celebrated young author returns with a layered novel on sibling rivalry
British writer Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story 'Orbital'
At 136 pages, it is also the second-shortest novel to win since the prize’s founding in 1969
Booker Prize finalist: Held traces grief, memory and longing across four generations
In lyrical language, Anne Michaels reflects on how we carry the dead with us, and how their memories leave a permanent imprint
Booker Prize finalist: Orbital finds beauty in the stillness of space
Set in a spaceship, Samantha Harvey’s novel invites readers to savour Earth’s majesty from orbit – even if the journey sometimes feels weightless
Booker Prize finalist: ‘James’ boldly reimagines an American classic
Percival Everett shifts the focus from Huckleberry Finn to the slave Jim, to tell a powerful story of identity and survival
Booker Prize finalist: Inspired or insipid? Stone Yard Devotional contemplates uncertainty
Charlotte Wood’s slow epistolary novel invites readers to sit with ambiguity, but in doing so, dims its own luminosity
‘Slow Productivity’ by Cal Newport: When less means more
The book suggests we can up our game by doing fewer things at a more natural pace
Book review: These Are the Plunderers
IN 1970, Milton Friedman penned an influential editorial in The New York Times stating that business had one social responsibility: to increase profits. The Friedman doctrine focuses on managers in th...
