Neil David Chan's book, A Higher Conversation, is one of the latest entries on the list of spiritual, philosophical and self-help genres. It is different in many ways from the books written by other contemporary authors in these genres. However,…
After a long time, a positive trend can be witnessed in Hindi poetry by the Indian poets. Though this trend may have many different connotations for different readers, an average reader wants to see popularity for the literature he or…
Retrace Love, as a novel, stands out to me for many reasons but the main reasons are very important and I will be highlighting the same in this book review for The Last Critic. Without much ado, I will come…
Rushali Mukherjee's debut publication, Moon Child, is a collection of 100 short poems, mostly, decorated with sketches that accompany each of the poems in this collection published by Bloomsbury India. The book has 100 pages and the same number of…
I have been a reader for almost all my life. (Given that we consider life only after the day we become aware of ourselves and we are able to read and understand things our own way.) I have read many…
This year is not going to be remembered as the worst one… not for all but for the bookworms who have used these days of fewer outings, past lockdowns and self-isolation period to read their favourite, new and accidental books.…
Readers, once again I am here with yet another review! However, this time, things are different. I am not going to review a novel as I usually do. It's neither a poetry collection. This is, surprisingly enough, a collection of…
2020 has not been a year worth remembering other than keeping a note of the important lessons that we learnt. However, for a reader, like me, who read a lot in their leisure, this year has brought unsolicited opportunity to…
The Memoirs of a Nobody is a recently published novel authored by P. Sam. At the outset, it appeared to be a novel more likely to be a mere memoir of a girl who started with childish acts and went…
In today's fiction, nothing is unusual. We do have a few benchmarks, or touchstones, as Matthew Arnold called, to judge the works by others – whether original or not. Well, this benchmark philosophy may not go well with coming of…
