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Mar 10, 2023 · 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring. New memoirs, a landmark biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a look at the woman who helped halt the rise of a K.K.K. leader — and more. Share full...
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- In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein. (Europa) 12 Rave • 12 Positive • 4 Mixed. “The lucid, well-formed essays that make up In the Margins are written in an equally captivating voice … Although a slim collection, there is more than enough meat here to nourish both the common reader and the Ferrante aficionado … Every essay here is a blend of deep thought, rigorous analysis and graceful prose.
- Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan. (W. W. Norton) 14 Rave • 8 Positive • 1 Mixed.
- We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole. (Liveright) 17 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed • 1 Pan. “One of the many triumphs of Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves is that he manages to find a form that accommodates the spectacular changes that have occurred in Ireland over the past six decades, which happens to be his life span … it is not a memoir, nor is it an absolute history, nor is it entirely a personal reflection or a crepuscular credo.
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 14 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed. Read an excerpt from Super-Infinite here.
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Dec 7, 2023 · 1. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, trans. Joshua L. Freeman. (Penguin Press) 13 Rave. “There are no scenes of torture, no violence and few sweeping proclamations about genocide. Izgil writes with calculated restraint. As his title suggests, the terror is in the anticipation …
