Gen Z takes anime activism worldwide

Decoding an idealistic tribe of digital natives. And a bodice-ripper for 'dreamers'

Oct 2 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

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September 2025

Play like a girl

An Aussie rugby star's manifesto. The life in cricket of a woman in Taliban-ruled Kabul

Sep 26 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

2

New US franchise has no golden arches

A novel about the descent into totalitarianism. And a history of the new right's ideas

Sep 17 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

6

Size matters: How big is your dam?

An account of these Great Pyramids of our times. And a novel on the havoc they cause

Sep 10 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

4

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August 2025

Burning Man. Out of Africa. And neighbours from hell

Your round-up of books relevant to the big news stories of August

Aug 31 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

5

2

Tossing tomatoes in a world of weird fests

A no-frills account. Meditations on happiness. And a modernist classic

Aug 26 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

5

2

Out of Africa...with hope

We hear from South Korea's 'man in Africa'. And rebirth in bloodied Sierra Leone

Aug 21 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

4

India and Pakistan: Brotherly love lost

EXCLUSIVE: As both countries mark their birthdays, two authors write for us about the growing distance between the neighbours

Aug 13 • 

Shueyb Gandapur

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Rajiv Dogra

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Trump plays healer to Armenia, Azerbaijan

Nagorno-Karabakh basics, an account from boomtown Baku and a Turkish taboo

Aug 7 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

6

July 2025

Edinburgh fest. Trump’s art of some deals. A great flood

Your round-up of books relevant to this month’s big news stories

Jul 28 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

7

2

Edinburgh: Backdrop to the world's big fest

A city guide by Robert Louis Stevenson. An historic village. Two real-life crime novels

Jul 20 • 

Rashmee Roshan Lall

11

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What the great flood of Texas tells us

Guest post by an activist whose debut novel explores how climate change actually feels

Jul 11 • 

Denise S. Robbins

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