Full of fresh perspectives and intelligent thinking, The Curiosity Academy offers a wealth of content on real-life issues, such as advice on setting boundaries and finding purpose, building resilience and thriving alone. If you're in need of help, or simply curious and want to learn more, award-winning journalist, and Features Editor at Stylist magazine, Meena Alexander brings you articles and tips, interviews with experts, reader quizzes and real-life case studies. Divided into four sections - work, relationships, wellbeing and you - topics include: - how to argue better - habits and how to make and break them - bio-hacks to make you feel more alert - the comparison curse - setting boundaries - how to battle burnout - the power of boredom With a foreword written by Stylist's editor-in-chief, Lisa Smosarski and insight from: Sarah Ellis Dr Julia Ravey Francesca Specter Charlène Gisèle Natalie Lue Hattie MacAndrews Katherine Morgan Schafler Karen Glass Ben Ramalingam

In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.

According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at all, and no order." Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire-both male and female-in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.

A wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century and contemporary writing from India and the Indian diaspora, curated by a distinguished scholar and poet Internationally renowned scholar, poet, and essayist Meena Alexander brings together leading twentieth- and twenty-first-century voices from India and the diaspora in this anthology. Contributors include English-language luminaries such as R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy and powerful writers in Indian languages such as U. R. Ananthamurthy, Mahasweta Devi, and Lalithambika Antherjanam. This book will make a thoughtful gift for poetry and fiction enthusiasts and fans of Indian literature, as well as an ideal volume for academics introducing writers from the subcontinent.