June Indian nonfiction: Six new titles that will take you closer to your reading goals
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Forwarded As Received: How Misinformation Turns Viral, Violent, and True, Saadia Azim
Misinformation has never felt truer than it does today. Claims that once invited examination and debate now float freely and settle into everyday conversation as facts. Repetition lends them authority; familiarity gives them legitimacy. In this quiet transformation, falsehood does not announce itself. It embeds, circulates, and endures.
This book examines how the seemingly harmless habit of forwarding messages has evolved into a powerful engine of distortion. What begins as an everyday digital reflex accumulates into an ecosystem where half-truths and manipulated narratives thrive, reshaping perception, deepening inequality, and normalising suspicion.
Grounded in the realities of the Global South, Forwarded as Received is an examination of our evolving information order – and of the life-altering choices we make, often unknowingly, with every forward.
Mixed Metaphors: The Art of Translation, Daisy Rockwell
Who is a translator?
What does it mean to be a translator?
Is she a musician interpreting a score?
Is he a conductor leading an orchestra?
Or a child building a Lego set?
What is the act of translation?
Is it making a patchwork quilt, bit by bit?
A monster?
A polygamous marriage?
Somersaulting through a curious, bewildering, often humorous set of metaphors, award-winning translator Daisy Rockwell navigates her quest to seek the perfect metaphor for the art of translation.
Mixed Metaphors is served as a series of...