Attention book lovers: heaven is a place on earth, and that place is Shenzhen, China. Atelier Global, a Chinese architecture firm, recently announced that it has won a competition to design ‘Shenzhen Book City’, a massive library and public gathering space in the Long Hua arts district of Shenzhen. The striking new complex is part of a bid by Shenzhen to promote their fledgling cultural district in a city primarily known as a manufacturing powerhouse. According to Atelier Global’s statement, the facility will feature a façade made of “vertical shading devices” meant to remind visitors of “the dynamic condition …
From 1939 to 1945, the German Nazi regime murdered approximately 11 million civilians. Of those 11 million, 6 million were Jews–6 million men, women, and children singled out to die solely because of the ethnic group into which they happened to have been born. Some of these books are memoirs by survivors; the others include a memoir by ta survivor’s son, a victim’s diary, and a work of fiction based on one survivor’s story. All are a testament to the permanent scars left by the Nazi decimation of the formerly large and diverse European Jewry. ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel Image …
Ever taken credit for something you didn’t actually do or say? Well then this is the listicle for you! While the internal has played a pivotal role in introducing scores of new readers to worthy and intelligent writers and thinkers, it has also had the unfortunate side effect of perpetuating the misattribution of some of our favorite quips and phrases. We’d offer up a Gandhi quote here, but we are honestly just too jaded to try. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” Image courtesy of biography.com …
Though he won’t say it outright, James Patterson is taking Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos to task in his new book ‘The Store’. Patterson, the best-selling, multi-millionaire author of mystery series like the Alex Cross detective novels and the Women’s Murder Club, said he is not out to get Amazon as much as “this whole area of monopolies and megalomaniacs… techy billionaires who are kind of running the world now.” Image courtesy of James Patterson Patterson voiced his displeasure at Amazon’s dominance of the publishing industry, as well as its overtures into supermarket ownership and Bezos’s …
From humble rural origins, Baba Ramdev has risen to the top of both India’s economic and political sphere. A yoga guru by trade who made his name with popular televised yoga classes, Ramdev has since built a massive consumer goods industry worth nearly half a billion dollars. He has also become an increasingly visible face in Indian politics, publicizing his support for Narendra Modi, a right-wing Hindu nationalist and the current Prime Minister of India. Yet despite his monumental success, Ramdev has taken legal steps to prevent the sale of a new book about his life. ‘Godman to Tycoon: …
