Books
We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
In the US, Thomas Mann tacitly proposed himself as an almost messianic figure, stately, dramatic, and wrathful at once, striding forth to represent German culture in exile and, increasingly, free Germany itself.
You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.
“As a writer, I was drawn to a subject I can’t make sense of any other way. So the questions swirling around abortion are so close to my heart I just had to write about it.”
“Some women ignored what was expected and forged careers in fields traditionally reserved for men. In other words, they had “men’s” jobs. I wanted to know where that ambition came from.”
An interview with debut novelist (at last!) Steve Almond.
For all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.
Continuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.
Three looks at love that may help generate some interesting conversations about what love means in the lives of children.
It is invaluable for the world to have an in-depth account from someone who passed through the Xinjiang re-education system and was brave enough to tell the tale.
Arts Commentary: The Last Laugh — Stephen Colbert, Comedy, and Cultural Resistance