World Books
A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
Read MoreCarrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.
Read MoreA perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.
Read MoreScholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.
Read MoreThe standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
Read MoreFrance: Story of a Childhood is half personal essay, half autobiographical novel.
Read MoreAn absorbing and disturbing novel that explores the dangerous turns that erotomania can take.
Read MoreDespite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.
Read MoreDid Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
Read MoreThe author makes fully human an illness marked by absence and estrangement from humanity.
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