Not that Barnes would deny that he makes mistakes. The wry premise of his book is that he’s changed his mind about how we ...

Keeping this in mind, when we think of books on philosophy in Urdu, we are rather pleasantly surprised to find that the number of books in Urdu on philosophy is by no means meagre.

Some books may fairly be called intimidating. They seem to attest to their own authority and almost defy the reader to question their judgments. Such a work is “The Reopening of the Western Mind ...

In “Changing My Mind,” a slender new book-length essay that has the misfortune to share a title with a 2009 collection by Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, the novelist and all-around man of letters ...