Tens of thousands of manuscripts were smuggled out of Timbuktu under jihadists’ noses, containing a wealth of knowledge about science, governance and peace-making. Now the public is getting a look.
Many fiction writers wind up wishing they could redraft their early works. Akhil Sharma actually did.
Damien Lewis makes the case that the legendary cabaret star was a daring World War II-era spy.
Damien Lewis makes the case that the legendary cabaret star was a daring World War II-era spy.
Poetry, she said, can help the nation “become whole again” in a fraught, divided moment.
The stories in K-Ming Chang’s “Gods of Want” are obsessed with the hungers and precarities of emigration and queer love.
In her new novel, “Any Other Family,” Eleanor Brown shows how nonstop togetherness can lead to tension, injury and, occasionally, joy.
The stories in K-Ming Chang’s “Gods of Want” are obsessed with the hungers and precarities of emigration and queer love.
In her new novel, “Any Other Family,” Eleanor Brown shows how nonstop togetherness can lead to tension, injury and, occasionally, joy.
Zain Khalid’s “Brother Alive” follows three brothers from Staten Island to Saudi Arabia, with plenty to say about the modern world.
The author and filmmaker Rebecca Miller plays with notions of convention, comfort and surprise in her latest collection, “Total.”
Dan Fesperman’s “Winter Work” is set amid confusion and moral compromise in East Germany as Communism fell.
Zain Khalid’s “Brother Alive” follows three brothers from Staten Island to Saudi Arabia, with plenty to say about the modern world.
The author and filmmaker Rebecca Miller plays with notions of convention, comfort and surprise in her latest collection, “Total.”
Dan Fesperman’s “Winter Work” is set amid confusion and moral compromise in East Germany as Communism fell.
Chinelo Okparanta’s second novel attempts to skewer white liberal solipsism.
Chinelo Okparanta’s second novel attempts to skewer white liberal solipsism.
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In “Circus of Dreams,” the literary editor John Walsh writes about the bookish life in London when Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and their generation were in the increasingly bright limelight.
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