“The world is complicated, Bar. That’s why it’s interesting.”  These were the words of Stanley Ann Dunham, mother of the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. “Mr. President” for the world but for his mother, he was her […]

There are chances that readers who developed their reading habits from a young age would have grown up reading school stories, especially the English boarding school stories. The most prominent author who springs to mind when we talk about English […]

Most of us have grown up reading Snow White and dreaming about our Prince Charming. It is only after turning into aware adults that we have realized how problematic the story was – a prince kissing a dead woman, an […]

The Red Badge of Courage – A war novel by the American author Stephen Crane, is the tale of an inexperienced young soldier going through the experience of a battle for the very first time. The novel, which came out in […]

It is no secret that Africans, no matter which part of the world they reside in, often become subject to racism, which takes brutal forms. It is horrifying how, even in 2020, we come across cases of violence, police misconduct, […]

This is one of those books that will make you fall in love with words and reading all over again. Life can be cruel and stressful at times, and sometimes it is books like this that can help you unwind […]

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is probably the most popular children’s fantasy novel of the nineteenth century. The book gave way to a brand new era of children’s English literature: books that did not intend to impart lessons […]