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I am a Bangladeshi-born writer, lifelong bookaholic and devoted cinephile. I write reviews and reflections shaped by close reading, careful research and a love of philosophy. Every piece starts with one question: what is this work really trying to say, and does it succeed?

5 Books to Make You Smarter, Fact-Checked Against the Real Science

5 books to make you smarter

Do these 5 books to make you smarter actually change how you think, or do they just leave you with … Read more

The Coddling of the American Mind: A Provocative Diagnosis of a Generation in Crisis

Coddling of the American Mind

Do you ever feel like the world has become too fragile—where words wound like weapons and disagreement feels like danger? … Read more

Tech Robs Our Empathy: How Reclaiming Conversation Can Save Us All

Reclaiming Conversation Can Save Us All

Did you ever wonder why you feel completely alone in a room full of friends, or why a constantly buzzing … Read more

Why Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport is the Most Important Book You’ll Read This Year

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Do you ever feel like your smartphone is running your life instead of the other way around? In Digital Minimalism, … Read more

How to Break Up With Your Phone Review: Brutal Truths, Real Results

How to Break Up With Your Phone Review

Is your phone the first thing you touch when you wake up and the last thing you let go of … Read more

Why You Can’t Pay Attention: A Deep Dive into Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus

Stolen Focus review

Does it ever feel like your brain has been hijacked? Like you’re constantly swimming against a current just to finish … Read more

Olive Kitteridge Book Review: Aging, Regret & Hidden Kindness

Olive Kitteridge Book Review

Why do the most ordinary, quiet lives often hide the most devastating, earth-shattering secrets? If you are looking for a … Read more

Irresistible Book Review: Is Big Tech Addicting You? (2026)

Irresistible Book Review

Have you ever picked up your phone to check one thing, only to look up forty-five minutes later with no … Read more

7 books that will help you books to stop phone addiction

books to stop phone addiction

Do you check your phone before you’re even fully out of bed? I did, for years, until I actually counted … Read more

What Is Life? Review: Rejected Over Free Will, Vindicated by DNA

What Is Life? Review

Does a physics lecture from 1943 still have anything to teach a biologist, a coder, or a curious reader in … Read more

What Is Man? by Mark Twain: A Brutal Truth About Human Nature (Review)

What Is Man? by Mark Twain

Ever catch yourself wondering why you really did that “selfless” thing? What if every act of kindness, every sacrifice, every … Read more

Tired of Unhappiness? How to Finally Build the Life You Want (2023) Today

Build the Life You Want

Ever wonder why you feel like true happiness is always a moving target you can never quite hit? Build the … Read more

Cancel Me If You Can Review: Inside Dave Portnoy’s Bitter, Bestselling Barstool Memoir

Cancel Me If You Can Review

Do you want to know why a book that critics called “hagiography for a dumbass” landed at number one on … Read more

An Infinite Love Story Review: Space Race Romance & Ending Explained

An Infinite Love Story Review

Why do we continuously gaze up at the stars, hoping to find answers to the heartbreaks we experience down here … Read more

The Small Stuff Book Review: Why Big Happiness Fails & Small Pleasures Win

The Small Stuff Book Review

Do you ever feel like you’re doing everything right—career, relationships, goals—yet still feel oddly disconnected from your own life? According … Read more

Do Unread Books Benefit You? The Real Science of Owning Books

Unread Books Benefit

Do the books stacked on your nightstand, the ones still creased open at page forty from three months ago, actually … Read more

10 Amazing Benefits of Reading Books (And Why Most People Underestimate Them)

Benefits of Reading Books

Something like 40 percent of American adults didn’t finish a single book last year, according to YouGov’s most recent survey. … Read more

The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Stupid Mistakes Review

The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Stupid Mistakes Review

Ever wonder why your sharpest colleague makes the most baffling decisions, or why highly educated people sometimes believe the most … Read more

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt Review: The Ending Explained

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt Review

Did you know that the small rash a father cannot see under his daughter’s Halloween face paint, in one quiet … Read more

All Mathematics is Symbolic Logic: Why Bertrand Russell’s The Principles of Mathematics Still Valuable

Principles of Mathematics review

Do you really know what mathematics is? Most of us think we do—it’s numbers, equations, geometry, calculus. But Bertrand Russell’s … Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Why Doctors Still Study This 1886 Novella

The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Why Doctors Still Study This 1886 Novella

Did you ever climb the ladder of a career, a marriage, or a reputation, only to wonder halfway up whether … Read more

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