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Tamara Yajia’s memoir recounts a chaotic upbringing between the U.S. and Argentina
Tamara Yajia’s memoir Cry for Me, Argentina describes a chaotic upbringing between Argentine and American cultures. A big focus of the memoir is her …
10 months ago
‘Papilio’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ are children’s books brought to life by friendship
Two children’s books were brought to life by close collaborations, one between longtime friends and another that began with a chance encounter. First…
10 months ago
In ‘The Sunflower Boys,’ a 12-year-old boy comes of age during war in Ukraine
Artem is a 12-year-old Ukranian boy who likes to spend summer days on his grandfather’s sunflower farm swimming with his younger brother, Yuri. But o…
10 months, 1 week ago
‘Friends with Words’ is a book about language, from word origins to regional dialects
For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the ra…
10 months, 1 week ago
Kate Riley’s novel ‘Ruth’ was inspired by her year in an insular religious community
Author Kate Riley says her book Ruth was partly based on her year spent living in an insular religious community. The debut novel explores what it’s …
10 months, 1 week ago
In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss
When poet Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His new memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, strad…
10 months, 1 week ago
‘Your Favorite Scary Movie’ and ‘Ready for My Close-Up’ are histories of iconic films
Ashley Cullins and David Lubin are out with new books that delve into the histories of iconic films. First, in 1996, the character Ghostface was intr…
10 months, 1 week ago
Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb
It’s been 80 years since the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths. Garrett Graff’s…
10 months, 1 week ago
In the novel ‘Loved One,’ an ambiguous friendship is further complicated by loss
Aisha Muharrar’s debut novel Loved One is about a woman’s effort to understand her relationship with a friend who’s recently died. Julia had been fri…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
‘Dinner with King Tut’ follows experimental archaeologists as they recreate the past
To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing. These researchers aim to re…
10 months, 2 weeks ago