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The title — Urdu and Hindi for \"freedom\" — has been a rallying cry both for Kashmiri self-determination and for India's own protest movements, and Roy traces its contested, shifting meanings across the book.\n\nRoy writes as both novelist and activist, moving between close political reportage — the CAA-NRC protests, majoritarian violence, media capture — and more personal essays on what it means to write fiction, and in which language, under conditions of rising authoritarianism. Expanded editions add material addressing the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on India's poorest and most marginalized communities.\n\nThe collection extends the political arguments of Roy's earlier nonfiction (The Cost of Living, The End of Imagination), applying them to India's most recent decade of Hindu-nationalist government.",2020,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwdyn7xc9jr7et3vpdcpcwad.jpg?v=fe19c3f6d9","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kwdyn7vfkmqh43th8b7kfypw.png?v=cbea70a665","L038^^yZ0fQSF~-jw@9[wPI]b^=x","5.00",1,256,291,0,"pending",true,false,[17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,14],[23],{"id":24,"slug":25,"name":26,"role":27,"bio":28},"01kkc5bb7ebmf1wvp9tk5500a4","arundhati-roy-nwo0","Arundhati Roy","author","Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God of Small Things. 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Now a journalist is following them. When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who'd done it--and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally known for his fictional villains, Larsson was well acquainted with their real-life counterparts and documented extremist activities throughout the world. For years he'd been amassing evidence that linked their terrorist acts to what he called \"one of the most astounding murder cases\" he'd ever covered. Larsson's archive was forgotten until journalist Jan Stocklassa was given exclusive access to the author's secret project. In The Man Who Played with Fire, Stocklassa collects the pieces of Larsson's true-crime puzzle to follow the trail of intrigue, espionage, and conspiracy begun by one of the world's most famous thriller writers. 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You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget. 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious twenty-three-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. We Keep the Dead Close is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. 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A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. 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In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history. Capuzzo interweaves a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark's five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga. Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn't conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy. Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Close to Shore brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. 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He recounts a childhood spent partly in hiding, navigating the absurd and brutal logic of a system built on racial classification, and the poverty, violence, and improvised survival of township life after apartheid's fall.\n\nAt the center of every story is his mother, Patricia — fearless, devout, stubborn, and endlessly resourceful — whose tough love and refusal to be limited shaped the man Noah became. 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Everywhere he goes, the face of Big Brother watches from posters and the ever-present telescreen watches back, recording every word and expression. Even a private thought against the Party is a crime punishable by death.\n\nWorn down by hunger, surveillance, and the deliberate poverty of daily life, Winston begins to keep a secret diary and to nurse a quiet, dangerous conviction that the past was different and the truth still exists somewhere outside the Party's control. When he falls into a forbidden love affair with a bold young woman named Julia, the two carve out a small world of their own and let themselves imagine resistance. Their rebellion draws the attention of the inner Party and the enigmatic official O'Brien, and Winston is forced to confront just how far a total state will go to own not only a person's actions but their mind.\n\nGeorge Orwell's 1949 novel gave the language \"Big Brother,\" \"doublethink,\" \"thoughtcrime,\" and \"Newspeak,\" and remains one of the most influential warnings ever written about totalitarianism, propaganda, and the manipulation of truth. 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Composed after the author's fall from office in Florence, it is a compact, unsentimental manual on how rulers seize power, hold it, and keep their states intact.\n\nBreaking sharply with the classical tradition that treated politics as a branch of ethics, Machiavelli argues that a ruler must be prepared to act against conventional morality when necessity demands it. He weighs whether it is better to be feared or loved, why appearing virtuous can matter more than being virtuous, how fortune must be mastered rather than trusted, and why a prince's first concern must be the strength of his own arms. Drawing on the recent history of Italy's city-states and figures such as Cesare Borgia, he illustrates his maxims with cold, concrete examples.\n\nPublished in 1532, five years after his death, The Prince has been read ever since as everything from a cynical handbook for tyrants to a clear-eyed diagnosis of how power actually works.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjq85kmrhhg685esqbrjxk2e.jpg","LAA+QS}p0*0,=Hw_EiE$n7xExXNc",1959,"2.33",176,[940],{"id":941,"slug":942,"name":943},"01kjq85kjwq0kr4s8fz4j2nx6g","niccolo-machiavelli-wdp5","Niccolò Machiavelli",[945,946,947,948,949,950,951,952,953],{"id":401,"name":402,"slug":403,"is_fiction":20},{"id":658,"name":659,"slug":660,"is_fiction":20},{"id":682,"name":872,"slug":873,"is_fiction":19},{"id":497,"name":498,"slug":499,"is_fiction":20},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":20},{"id":488,"name":489,"slug":490,"is_fiction":20},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":20},{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":20},{"id":883,"name":884,"slug":885,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":234,"complexity":7,"audience":131,"mood":956,"themes":957,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[237,134],[],{"id":959,"slug":960,"title":961,"description":962,"primary_cover_url":963,"cover_blurhash":964,"first_publish_year":764,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":682,"page_count":965,"authors":966,"genres":971,"series":982,"enrichment":983},"01kjq753fq335b50x0b16kqepm","one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-ntvl","One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This","Taking its title from a widely shared 2023 post by the author, Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a searching book-length essay written in the shadow of the war on Gaza. El Akkad — born in Egypt, raised in Qatar, and a longtime journalist who reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and Ferguson — turns his attention to the distance between Western self-image and Western action.\n\nMoving between reportage, memoir, and polemic, he sets images of atrocity against the ordinary safety of his own family's life, and interrogates the liberal centrism that professes horror while tolerating it. The result is both an indictment of imperial hypocrisy and a reckoning with what it means to belong to a society that, El Akkad argues, will one day claim it was against all this — once claiming so costs nothing.\n\nWinner of the National Book Award, this is an urgent, unsparing, and deeply personal work about complicity, conscience, and the stories nations tell themselves.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjz71rge7mav4am8ymsyv1va.jpg","LcQ:Z8oL$OoL|vo1jto1JSWpWpa|",187,[967],{"id":968,"slug":969,"name":970},"01kjq753q9crrfpaymemmd7g9j","omar-el-akkad-qvxz","Omar El Akkad",[972,973,974,975,979,980,981],{"id":255,"name":256,"slug":257,"is_fiction":19},{"id":113,"name":195,"slug":196,"is_fiction":19},{"id":865,"name":866,"slug":867,"is_fiction":19},{"id":976,"name":977,"slug":978,"is_fiction":19},31,"Post-Apocalyptic","post-apocalyptic",{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":20},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":20},{"id":224,"name":225,"slug":226,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":128,"complexity":7,"audience":131,"mood":984,"themes":985,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[134,237],[],{"id":987,"slug":988,"title":989,"description":990,"primary_cover_url":991,"cover_blurhash":992,"first_publish_year":520,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":993,"authors":994,"genres":1003,"series":1007,"enrichment":1008},"01kwdypjpkf8xcjamt6c8hp9xx","we-will-be-jaguars-gkiy","We Will Be Jaguars","We Will Be Jaguars is Nemonte Nenquimo's memoir of growing up Waorani in the Ecuadorian Amazon and becoming one of the region's most consequential Indigenous rights and environmental leaders. 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