Hisham Matar Discusses ‘My Friends’
Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship.
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Herman Raucher, Screenwriter Best Known for ‘Summer of ’42,’ Dies at 95
His screenplay, based on his own youthful experience, was nominated for an Oscar. His other films included “Sweet November,” based on his own unproduced play.
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Book Review: ‘Making It in America,’ by Rachel Slade
In “Making It in America,” Rachel Slade examines the challenges of domestic production through the lens of one Maine company.
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Book Review: ‘Inverno,’ by Cynthia Zarin
Cynthia Zarin’s first novel, “Inverno,” is a tale of a woman’s incurable longing and haunted past.
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Book Review: ‘My Friends,’ by Hisham Matar
A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Writing in an Endangered Language to Honor, and Challenge, Traditions
In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.
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Book Review: ‘You Dreamed of Empires,’ by Álvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.
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Book Review: “Goldenseal,” by maria Hummel
In “Goldenseal,” Maria Hummel takes readers into a hotel room, then unfurls her characters’ complicated history.
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Book Review: ‘Beautyland,’ by Marie-Helene Bertino
In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles of a cosmetics store.
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Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97
A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”
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