I came to Counting Backwards with a complicated kind of curiosity—equal parts hope, unease, and the faint echo of memory (mine, collective, borrowed from the women who came before me and fictional ones who haunt the pages of American
How do democracies defend themselves when faced with forces that glorify destruction and reject every shared value? In On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, Douglas Murray addresses this question head-on. The book cuts through
What would you give up to live one more day? Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared from the World presses pause on daily routines to tackle this question head-on. In this short novel, an unnamed postman faces a stark reality—terminal
Scaling a digital marketing agency to seven figures is the kind of dream that keeps most agency owners awake at night, simultaneously thrilling and daunting. It’s not just about the money (though, let’s be honest, that’s a big part).
What if I told you that a tiny vial, dug up from the muddy banks of a river, could connect a modern woman’s mid-life crisis to the clandestine secrets of an 18th-century poisoner? Sounds like a plot twist straight
Tara Westover’s Educated is not just a memoir; it’s a reckoning. Imagine peeling back the layers of a life so tethered to isolation that even the concept of formal education feels foreign — almost criminal. That’s the canvas Westover
