As I have lots and lots of work to take care of, and then more lots once those first lots are over, I haven't been able to write a post this week.
But here are links to some recent reviews for Mint: on Akbar Ahmed's Journey Into Islam, Nalini Jones's debut collection of stories What You Call Winter, Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great, and Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion.
Like Hitchens, two other prominent authors, Richard Dawkins (The god delusion) and Sam Harris (The end of faith), have recently written books that are critical of religion. I haven't read them but here's the link to an excellent lecture by Sam Harris , in which he makes some very telling points. Also, here's my post on the lecture.
ReplyDeleteCollier's work, The Bottom Billion, seems very interesting. You mention Jeffrey Sach's book in the review. I read about half of the book, and though Sachs makes some good points (he also uses the bottom billion argument), I didn't think the book was well written. Thanks to your review, I'll be giving Collier a try soon.