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The Cooking Gene, by Michael W. Twitty

In 2012, Michael W. Twitty kickstarted what he called the Southern Discomfort Tour. The tour sprang from a life-long curiosity … More

Highway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid

Since the 1970s, thousands of Indigenous teenaged girls and women along Highway 16 in British Columbia have gone missing and … More

1900s, 2000s, Canada

A Bookshop in Berlin, by Françoise Frenkel

Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano explains in the preface to A Bookshop in Berlin that the memoir was written shortly … More

France, Holocaust fiction, translation, World War II

Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders delivers two mysteries for the price of one. There is a traditional whodunnit set in southern … More

1900s, 2000s, England

How to Be a Person in the World, by Heather Havrilesky

Heather Havrilesky has been giving advice, professionally, in some form or another for almost twenty years. Like many advice-givers, she’s … More

bibliotherapy

The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan, is one of the most extraordinary, best written works of nonfiction I think I’ve … More

1900s, United States

The Queen, by Josh Levin

The phrase “welfare queen” has been around all my life, but I never knew where it came from. I never … More

1900s, United States

A Victory Garden for Trying Times, by Debi Goodwin

Having a loved one diagnosed with stage three esophageal cancer means a lot of things, not least of which is … More

2000s, Canada

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

1900s, 2000s, England, Greece, Iran, Netherlands, trigger warnings, United States

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

1900s, Austria, Belgium, bibliotherapy, England, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, translation

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