Book reviews: ‘Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ and ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’
The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness
Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been over a decade since ...
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In his own words: Pope Francis has long been up front about his health problems and eventual death
In the 2010 book “On Heaven and Earth,” written alongside his friend the Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Francis denounced ...
Book Review: ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ by Alissa Wilkinson
A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...
A Melancholy Yiddish Classic That Also Happens to Be Hilarious
Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the ...
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With Our Bellies Full and the Fire Dying
The concluding story has a great first sentence: “This is where I buried my wives,” spoken on a pleasant rural hilltop by a ...
Omar El Akkad didn’t think his memoir would ever get published. It’s one of 2025’s buzziest releases
The author of ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This’ discusses his memoir. Plus, the manager of North Figueroa ...
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What did Randy Blythe write in "Just Beyond The Light"? Lamb of God vocalist explains why he wanted to write about death in his new book
Heavy metal band, Lamb of God’s lead vocalist, Randy Blythe, published his second book Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head in February 2025.
Trump’s address to Congress showed the country’s stark partisan divide
A president’s address to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a ...