One day, everyone will have always been against this

On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times. As an immigrant who came to the West, El A…

Days of love and rage

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Ed. 1

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9781668062173

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582 p. ; 24 cm

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959 GOP d

Things that disappear

Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced perspective on her country's history and her own writing lifeimbue these short pieces with lasting power.

Things in nature merely grow

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.

The cost of living

What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in the world not arranged to her advantage?

Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation

An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.

De profundis

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9788119172108

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828 WIL d

Memoirs of a dutiful daughter

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de…

Anne Frank's diary: the graphic adaptation

For both young readers and adults The Diary continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.

Notes on grief

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun".