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As we bid our first citizen farewell on the road to his final journey, Charles Cilliers compiles a list of the 10 best books that encapsulate the spirit ... “Being black and involved [in the struggle] ...
To understand how these three men have dominated our thinking, says Author Barzun, try to imagine our speech without terms like survival of the fittest, struggle ... highest and best in manhood.” ...
Here is the best online writing on books ... In the industry, stories about police brutality, the struggle, poverty, etc. have been dubbed “issue” books, and it’s a not-so-secret secret ...
Just a few months ago, another children's book, A Fine Dessert, drew similar criticism. It also raised questions about the diversity of the publishing industry and especially about the struggle ...
This episode, which occurred not long before Kennan composed his famous “Long Telegram” warning against Soviet expansionism, reveals a lot about the great strategist’s relationship with power.
In “The Struggle for India’s Soul,” Mr. Tharoor ... pandemic fiction and our list of the 10 Best Books of 2021. Mr. Tharoor is a man of rare talents (who is, some would say, not unaware ...
Greene is a diligent reporter and researcher whose two previous books, the much-praised Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing, deal with little-known aspects of the civil-rights struggle in ...
Written in 1975, this book went on to become one of the most popular accounts of India's struggle for independence. It captures the last years of British rule, dwells upon the impact of the ...
Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle” is the buzz book of the moment — or more accurately a certain kind of buzz book, for a certain kind of audience. It is also a ...
There’s a strong temptation to resist the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose vast six-part autobiographical novel “My Struggle ... uniformly paid his books, from James Wood ...