Books
Children’s picture books about dogs and cats are plentiful, but a few new entries in the genre stand out.
All of the characters in Back to the Dirt are, in a sense, survivalists, people clinging onto what’s long gone, stockpiling karma for an apocalypse that is already upon them.
Nobody reading about Rebecca “Beka” Ntsanwisi, aka “Mama Beka,” can feel anything but good. This extraordinary South African woman has built a network of soccer teams made up of grandmothers throughout her country.
Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.
Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.
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.
Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”
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.
Book Review: “Fearless Women” — A Vivid, Rounded Portrait of the Choices Facing America’s Women
Fearless Women is so well-written, so well researched, and so engaging that you will find it of real value even as it tells some stories you thought you already knew.
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