The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded last week to the French author Annie Ernaux. She is only the 17th woman to be awarded the prize since its creation in 1901. This is worth noting not only because she is a woman and a brilliant writer, but also because she is...
Mother’s Day reminds us of a great novel –Mother by Maxim Gorky. The book was written in 1906 and the story is set in the years before the Russian Revolution, when workers and other committed revolutionaries organized among themselves to spread ideas and literature...
The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, opens with a quote from Fredrick Douglass: “My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators.” Coates’s book does just that. He makes the life of a slave something we can feel in...
