Books
Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”
Éric Vuillard’s method is to create an ironic rapport with the powerful: his vignettes dramatize how France’s elite delude themselves into thinking the colonial world order can be kept intact after World War Two.
This is a well-researched and accessible account of how and how often the system locks up the wrong people and keeps them locked up.
April weather may be unpredictable, but the bond between grandparents and children is not. Here are some new books that celebrate that special relationship.
The biographer makes her case with evident joy, drawing on wide-ranging research to supply a lucid, sympathetic homage to Emilie Loring’s indefatigable determination and sunny-side up literary sensibility.
Ukrainian writer, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets’ diary blends the visceral with the mundane, showing just how quickly dread replaces everyday life.
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to poet, novelist, and essayist Joshua Whitehead about his essay collection “Making Love With the Land.”
Poet, essayist, and novelist Kat Meads puts readers in the presence of women whose lives were often “spectacularly awry.”
Faced with the dual dilemmas of the opacity of the albums themselves and the now painfully obvious narrative of colonialism, wealth, and white privilege, some of Fellow Wanderer’s authors dodge into more easily researched side issues.
Author Interview: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph on the Third Reconstruction and Hope for a Multiracial Democracy
Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”
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