Archive - This Week, Those Books

Edinburgh: Backdrop to the world's big fest

Repost: City guide by Robert Louis Stevenson. Historic village. Two real-life crime novels

20 hrs ago • Rashmee Roshan Lall

July 2026

Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?

A manifesto for trickle-up politics. Memories of the power and peril

Jul 30 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

Rewiring Britain

Rollicking family saga on the greed-is-good life. And neoliberal logic

Jul 21 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

Sports overload. Three cheers

A boy-meets-girl novel about video gaming. Essays on why sport matters

Jul 15 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

America @250: The whole world played a role

New book links India into 1776. Updike's classic novel anticipated Trump and MAGA

Jul 4 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

June 2026

Pakistan Has Never Looked So Important

There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.

Published on Persuasion • Jun 30

Heatwave: Code red for our warming world

A factual book that reads like horror fiction. A novel set in a blazing summer 50 years ago

Jun 27 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

Pakistan wants to be Trump's BFF

Two diplomats on the troubled DC-Islamabad relationship. And a thriller that's all too real

Jun 18 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

It's all kicking off. Football and politics

Brand new book gives World Cup a red card. A bestseller on the beautiful game's history

Jun 11 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

East or West? Armenia votes for one direction

Repost for a pivotal election: Nagorno-Karabakh basics. Boomtown Baku. Turkish taboo

Jun 7 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

The sauces that explain why Taiwan isn’t Chinese

A thaw between Xi and Trump is worrying residents of the independent island

Published on The New World • Jun 2

The ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh?

A repost, after talking to Tahmima Anam, whose new novel has a remarkable uprising

Jun 1 • Rashmee Roshan Lall

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