Category: Authors of Note

Authors I love, respect, admire or detest.

  • 7 Essays by John Pilger that Every Journalist Should Read

    Look around you. The paint has not only chipped off the walls of the Western Empire– the roof is falling. Germany, the current pioneers of western democracy has legalized censorship of those who speak against Israel’s war crimes. Politicians are comfortable supporting the sovreignty of Ukraine but denouncing the sovreignty of Palestine. America continues to…

  • A Freida McFadden Addiction

    Okay granted, there are worse illnesses in life than being addicted to an author but heaven above, this is serious. So who is this remarkably twisted (and brilliant) author, Freida McFadden? Her most notable work is the The Housemaid which I have not mustered the emotional strength to read but believe me I will…like, soon.…

  • The Discursive Voice of Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak is hands down one of my heroes. I mean where do I begin? She’s a politics scholar and a brilliant public speaker, she is chosen among BBC’s top 100 influential woman, she’s the vice president of the Royal Society of Literature, the founding member of the European Council of Foreign Relations and now…