Bibliophobia...!

Penguin and Random House have merged into what could be the world's largest book publishing firm. Apparently, news of the merger "...

first published in The Malaysian Insider , 24 October 2012 Some time ago, some linguistic Paul Revere came riding out of a foggy night, l...

At last, Newsweek ends its print edition. Andrew Sullivan isn't all that crushed about it, comparing print mags to "horses and c...

This is no spicy literary pick-me-up perfumed by the kind of exoticism generally associated with the Indian subcontinent first published i...

I was holding out for the results of this year's Man Booker Prize before posting but, in the end, a Malaysian favourite lost out to a fo...

Seems there's a bug creeping around; several colleagues came down with symptoms like mine: hangover-ish headache, listlessness and a tou...

While I'm relieved that it's finally published, I'm still averse to reading the many other reviews out there. Can any more be s...