Tariq Ali has written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics — the most recent of which are The Extreme Centre, The Dilemmas of Lenin and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, Winston Churchill — as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. He is a long-standing member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review and lives in London Read More
Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist, How Innovation Works and most recently “Birds, Sex and Beauty”. “Viral: the search for the origin of Covid-19” was co-authored with Alina Chan. He sat in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. Read More
Devika Rege’s debut novel, Quarterlife, published in the UK by Dialogue Books in January was New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 with James Wood calling it: “A fearless achievement.... An urgent, vital orchestration,” and hailed as a landmark publication in India. It received rave reviews in the Guardian, Observer and Daily Mail in the UK. It is as much a social and philosophical inquiry as it is a political bildungsroman. A brilliantly innovative and ambitious work that tests the limits of what the novel can achieve. Read More
