Books
The cumulative effect over the course of Jhumpa Lahiri’s book sharpens our view of what the imperfect art of translation can, in fact, do.
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Author and journalist Massoud Hayoun’s novel Building 46 probes behind the air-brushed image of China’s capital city to offer a fascinating (and incisive) look into the everyday lives of Beijing dwellers.
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You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.
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Running with Robots not only makes reading about education reform fun, but also prods a broad readership to think critically about how learning should work in a future guided by artificial intelligence.
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Mark Goldsmith about his book Madison Avenue to Rikers Island. He is the founder and CEO emeritus of Getting Out and Staying Out, a nonprofit that provides educational, vocational, job readiness, counseling, and other services to young men who have been incarcerated.
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Throughout, Gen Z, Explained does its best to help readers relate to its protagonists by placing them in Gen Z’s shoes.
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Author Claire Kohda is particularly deft at illustrating how unacknowledged desire will out, undermining our best intentions.
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.
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Graphic novels are wonderfully suited to chronicle the lives and times of artists, designers, architects, and even creative institutions.
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Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.
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