Editorial: Reviews – ULR Issue 13, Memories of the Future

Greetings Dear readers!

We are living in troubling times. With wars raging across two continents, intensifying climate change, and the recent spate of air crashes (the recent Air India crash in Ahmadabad; and the chopper crash in Uttarakhand), our hopes for a better, brighter future could not be more desperately felt. We send prayers for those who lost their lives, and strength to the grieving families.

For our Reviews Section in the Summer 2025 Issue, we present three reviews of books that provocatively engage with the concept of futurality in its many intriguing, exciting, and wondrous forms.

One of our prolific contributors, Aditi Yadav, reviews Anton Hur’s sci-fi novel, _Towards Eternity_, which delves into what it will mean to be human a few decades from now.

Mohammad Asif and Yasir Hamid review the sequel to Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning, _The Sense of an Ending_, titled _Changing my Mind_, in which Barnes explores the retrospective self not as a fixed being, but as a contingent becoming.

Lastly, Mahalakshmi G reviews Margaret Macmillan’s acclaimed classic, _Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History_, wherein, using some of the key arguments from the book, the reviewer highlights how history can be twisted and moulded to meet questionable political ends.

Hope you enjoy the issue,

Happy reading,

Ankush

Reviews Editor

Usawa Literary Review