25 New Books by African Writers You Should Read
Tahar Ben Jelloun, A. Igoni Barrett, Yaa Gyasi, and many more
You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War
Matt Gallagher on the Difference Between Experience and Authority
How the New York Times Fails to Depict the Reality of War
David Shields on Front Page Photos That Strip Combat of its Suffering
Willful Disregard
Lena Andersson, trans. Sarah Death
"With work on the article over, Ester and Hugo carried on seeing each other at least one evening a week. They had dinner at the restaurant, their conversation was inexhaustible, and afterward he almost always invited her up to the studio, where they went on talking, but never to his flat, which was in the same building but on the other side of the courtyard."
Five Books Making News This Week: Winter Reading Edition
Bill Bryson, Charlie Jane Anders, Ian Buruma, and More
Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War
Andrea Molesini on the Stories We Tell to Make Sense of the Past
Interview with a Bookstore: The Mysterious Bookshop
The largest and oldest mystery-specific bookstore in the world
The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin
“Early morning, and the day already warm. Anderson was eating breakfast with his old friend Angsley on the veranda of their hotel. Down the river, toward the city, buttery sunlight bounced off the Temple of the Dawn, scattering color into the air like a jeweled delusion.”
Donald Trump, All-American Know-Nothing Nativist
As Sinclair Lewis Foretold, It Can Always Happen Here
The Pirate
Jón Gnarr, trans. Lytton Smith
"The rumor was that all us kids at Hlemmur were on drugs. That was a gross exaggeration given how limited the supply of drugs was. There was just normal stuff: sniffing glue, markers, and gas."
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