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Beloved
A ghost story about slavery’s aftermath, memory and the difficult work of freedom.
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Book reviews, essays, reflections, and resources by A T M Haidar Khan, author of The Silence Between Two Heartbeats.
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Book reviews
Individual literary reviews by A T M Haidar Khan, exploring each book’s language, themes, strengths and demands on the reader.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
A reading of Offred’s voice, reproductive control and the quiet erosion of freedom.
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All the Light We Cannot See
A lyrical wartime novel about invisible connections, survival and small acts of goodness.
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The Road
A father and son’s journey through catastrophe becomes a spare study of love and compassion.
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The God of Small Things
Language, caste and family pressure shape Roy’s devastating story of forbidden love.
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The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s compact novel exposes the distance between American longing and the lives built around it.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of the Buendía family reveal a world of wonder, repetition and solitude.
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Don Quixote
Cervantes turns a knight’s impossible adventures into a lasting conversation about stories and reality.
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In Search of Lost Time
Proust’s seven-volume work turns memory, jealousy and social observation into an extraordinary reading experience.
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Ulysses
One day in Dublin becomes an expansive, demanding and deeply human literary journey.
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Les Misérables
Justice, mercy and redemption in Hugo’s sprawling portrait of nineteenth-century France.
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Hard Times
Dickens challenges a world that measures usefulness while overlooking imagination and compassion.
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Das Kapital (Capital, Volume I)
A critical reading of Marx’s account of labour, value and capitalism, and its contested intellectual legacy.
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The Prince
A compact, provocative examination of political power, necessity and the limits of conventional morality.
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Gulliver’s Travels
Swift’s four voyages expose political vanity, misplaced certainty and the darker edges of human pride.
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Essays & reflections
September 2026
The Hours Between Dusk and Dawn: What a Memoir Can Ask Medicine
By A T M Haidar Khan
How The Silence Between Two Heartbeats became a set of research questions, and why the answers matter to every family that brings a fragile baby home.
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When a Family Story Raises a Medical Question: The Silence Between Two Heartbeats and the HIE Care Gap
By A T M Haidar Khan
How one family’s experience raises questions about post-discharge neurological care—and how lived experience can help shape future HIE research.
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“They Will Be Fine, Don’t Worry” — What No One Tells NICU Parents
By A T M Haidar Khan
A reflection on fear, reassurance, presence, and what NICU parents actually need to hear while living through uncertainty.
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A Father's Guide to Fighting for a Child with HIE
By A T M Haidar Khan
A T M Haidar Khan reflects on NICU care, parental vigilance, neonatal seizures, feeding, courage, and the realities families face after an HIE diagnosis, drawing from The Silence Between Two Heartbeats.
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