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What does it take to create meaningful change in a world full of complex challenges? For one passionate changemaker, the answer lies in rethinking how individuals contribute to building stronger, more compassionate communities.
In keeping with our Upswing theme, we gather the season's most compelling new releases, from aerial portraits of Lebanon to stories of reinvention, each capturing the spirit of rising stars and remarkable comebacks.
A curated shelf of essential reading, from Mo Amelia Teitelbaum's portrait of the 1920s Paris stylemakers to Suraiya Faroqhi's study of the Ottoman artisans and Austin Kleon's witty guide to becoming more creative.
Historian Lucy Worsley's trove of curious facts reveals when bedrooms first became private and why medieval people sometimes slept standing up. From the groaning chair to toilet paper, domestic history proves endlessly surprising.
Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful language); in India, devotion (waking at
George Hawi Besides being recognised as the late secretary general of the Lebanese Communist Party, assassinated politician George Hawi, was also in fact a promising poet. Subsequent to his death, his daughter compiled these hitherto unknown works in order to share his poems with the world