Books (Featured)
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What Americans Can Learn From Their Isolationist Past
Kupchan seeks to do just that in his new book. We present here two timely excerpts. Charles A. Kupchan The…
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Why we must raise a generation of readers
It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. Lorraine Levis The…
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Global Bookmark
And by dragging Marx, kicking and screaming, back into the Rhinish Jewish community that shaped him, Avineri yields new insights…
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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the…
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Odyssey to Freedom
Categorized into seven parts, Odyssey to Freedom takes the reader through a journey of history, struggle, and human emotion. Valentino…
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New book ‘Atlas of Extinct Countries’ explores the places that fell off the map
Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. Barry Neild CNN Travel They no longer…
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Elena Ferrante has a new novel, but is the fever still running high?
There are the sentences that never seem to end; the language charged with carnality; the Naples that is dark yet…
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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi review – a painfully invisible existence
Akwaeke Emezi’s Women’s prize-longlisted debut Freshwater was narrated by the multiple selves inhabiting a young Nigerian woman who was born with “one foot on…
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Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers review – slavery and the British empire
You are trapped in a net cast by a white man reeking of rum and smoke, and then dragged miles…
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Jasper Fforde on rabbits, racism and writing fiction ‘to slightly improve a flawed world’
What would the UK look like if, 55 years ago, a mysterious event caused rabbits to become human-sized, intelligent and…
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James Baldwin Was Right All Along
America just needs to heed them. “There are days—this is one of them—when you wonder what your role is in…
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Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump’s niece
New York state Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, issued an order requiring the niece, Mary Trump,…
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Reni Eddo-Lodge: ‘The debate on racism is a game to some and I don’t want to play’
Here she explains why her success with Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race has been bittersweet. Nosheen Iqbal…
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Why we must defend John Bolton’s right to publish his self-serving book
As you may have heard, John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has written a book. Emily Tamkin New…
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A refugee’s story: ‘The execution order came for my mum’
But she never expected the speech in 2000 to travel far and wide, resulting in an order for her to…
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Publishers rush to fill demand as books on race and racism sell out amid protests
Bookshops have sold out of several titles on the topics, with publishers racing to reprint and order more stock in…
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