The Ungrateful Refugee, by Dina Nayeri

Trigger warnings for discussion of rape and suicide. When she was eight years old, Dina Nayeri’s mother began to be … More

Journeys, by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig was an essayist, journalist, and … More

Shaun Bythell continues to recount his adventures as the proprietor of the Bookshop, in Wigtown, Scotland, in Confessions of a … More

They say that the only things that are inevitable are death and taxes. This aphorism leaves out of a lot … More

There wasn’t just an influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. There was also a pandemic of a, … More

Journalist David French arrived in New York City just as news of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS made national … More

Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson’s second memoir, picks up some time after Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. Where the first book … More

It’s hard to know quite what to make of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human Matter: A Fiction (translated by Eduardo Aparicio). … More

In 2001, Shaun Bythell bought The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. In The Diary of a Bookseller, Bythell shares a year … More

In The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller traces the transmission of knowledge from the ancient Mediterranean, via the Abbasid and … More