Bibliophobia...!

Welcome to Eden, a gloomy, decaying former coal-mining town in Kentucky and a misnomer if there ever was one. All known coal deposits are mi...

Beware the cat, dear reader. Though it may be a relentless killer of small animals, its antics feed an appetite starving for cute cuddly thi...

If you could return to the past, what would you change? Tales premised around time travel have been told ever since the concept gained a f...

Mental health carries less of a stigma these days, with governments and institutions stepping up (slowly and gradually) to tackle mental hea...

In Malaysian author Vanessa Chan's debut novel, The Storm We Made , the past catches up with Eurasian housewife Cecily Alcantara, who is...

Never delve too much into a stirring fantasy-romance romp between two enigmatic characters. Because that's what I did with Thea Guanzon...

Common threads run through the stories in Saras Manickam's My Mother Pattu , a collection of short stories that doesn't look like on...

The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose picks up from her previous book, The Maid , which came out in 2022 and features the same few characters tha...

Imagine a future where weather can be controlled, gnat-sized drones guard private property, and apps feed growing stores of data that reveal...

Rows of bookshelves stocked to the brim. The smell of books perfume the interior, with the occasional whiff of freshly brewed coffee. Gentle...

Bill Johnson, director and screenwriter, makes a movie out of a memoir by Joe Shaw, a lecturer at an arts college. One thing leads to anothe...

Every now and then, one hears of a business that once boomed before stagnating and ultimately failing. If author and inspirational speaker S...

For about a century, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) has been a go-to for views and insights in business and management, covering a wide ...

Three years after the first COVID-19 lockdowns, almost every business is fully opened up and getting its workforce back into the office. Man...

Simon Winchester's concise history of precision engineering and its impact also asks some incisive questions first published in The St...

To say Malaysians were hyped about Billion Dollar Whale is an understatement. Thank goodness for 9 May, otherwise we'd never get our ha...

Men Are Dicks* is an acerbic, white-hot riposte against men behaving badly I got a copy of this bright fuchsia-covered book yonks ago at...

Andrew Santella builds a good case for killing time first published in The Star , 24 July 2018 The inclination to delay or distract one...

first published in Malay Mail , 10 July 2018 Much has been said of novels about Malaya written by foreigners, not all of which are good. ...

James Patterson teams up with Bill Clinton in what might be this year's summer blockbuster read first published in The Star , 08 June...