Daybreak Morning is a revealing; confession of rivers, Rainfall hushed of the rhetoric of surprise,Field that can furrow the heart; a land our eyesHave learnt by rote, not leaned over like lovers;... Read more »
Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis is set to publish a book about her experience as a caregiver to her husband after he was disagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. The untitled book, which... Read more »
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You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead). This incantatory novel takes place in 1519, on the day when Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors arrived... Read more »
A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family’s care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation. In 1967, Sireen... Read more »
If you believe some commentators, we’re in the midst of a compassion crisis, with a particularly brutal daily news cycle taking its toll on our reserves of sympathy. The more suffering we see, the... Read more »
Booker prize shortlisted author Paul Murray and comedian Fern Brady have been announced as the winners of their categories in the inaugural Nero book awards. Irish writer Murray topped the fiction category... Read more »
Her analogy—a painful one, perhaps—was the conception of a child. If nature were purely animate, she wrote, “a Child in the Womb would as suddenly be framed, as it is figured in... Read more »