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'The Rest Is Memory' is a novel inspired by photos taken at Auschwitz
About 10 years ago, author Lily Tuck was reading obituaries in The New York Times when she came across photos of Czesława Kwoka, a young prisoner at …
1 year, 5 months ago
Mark Lilla's new book explores the psychology and consequences of willful ignorance
Author Mark Lilla is professor of humanities at Columbia University specializing in intellectual history. His new book, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanti…
1 year, 5 months ago
'No Place to Bury the Dead', 'The Hunter' ask what lengths you'll go for others
Two novels explore the way that violence and loss can ripple across a village, town – or even entire countries. First, in Karina Sainz Borgo's No Pla…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daylight is something to celebrate in 'The Shortest Day'
We've moved past the shortest day of the year – Dec. 21 – and, now, the days are getting longer. For more than 40 years, people have read and perform…
1 year, 6 months ago
'Small Things Like These' draws from the true story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries
Small Things Like These is a novella by Claire Keegan that centers around Bill Furlong, an Irish coal merchant who discovers exploitation at a local …
1 year, 6 months ago
A new book examines millennial nostalgia and the economic consequences of Y2K
Twenty-five years into the new millennium, Y2K aesthetics and millennial nostalgia are still alive and well in Colette Shade's new book, Y2K: How the…
1 year, 6 months ago
'A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook' is an updated exploration of Kwanzaa's traditions
A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook was first published in 1995, a few decades after the seven-day festival was created in 1966. Written by culinary hist…
1 year, 6 months ago
'King: A Life' and 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama' are Pulitzer Prize winners
Today, we revisit conversations with two 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. First, King: A Life, the biography by Jonathan Eig, provides a fresh pe…
1 year, 6 months ago
In 'All Fours,' Miranda July tackles love, sex and reinvention in middle age
Writer and filmmaker Miranda July says the popular imagination sort of drops off once a woman gets married and has kids. Her new novel All Fours turn…
1 year, 6 months ago
Salman Rushdie's memoir 'Knife' recounts his attack and recovery
In 2022, the author Salman Rushdie was onstage at a public event when a man ran up and stabbed him. His new memoir, Knife, delves into that moment wh…
1 year, 6 months ago