Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times,” “The Age of Skin,” “Mobile Home” and “The Best of Brevity” break down a complicated world.
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Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic
Three new books on race and relationships explore how white attitudes about sex and emotions have shaped our history.
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In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family
In Alecia McKenzie’s new novel, “A Million Aunties,” a Black painter seeks solace from personal tragedy in the arms of his Jamaican community.
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Book Review: ‘Oak Flat,’ by Lauren Redniss
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe’s sacred land.
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Book Review: ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan,’ by Declan Walsh
In “The Nine Lives of Pakistan,” Declan Walsh, a foreign correspondent for The Times, profiles some of the country’s powerful and contentious figures and investigates why his work eventually got him kicked out.
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How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor
Catherine Coleman Flowers’s memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist.
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A Writer Owes His Liberty to His Mother’s Surrender of Her Own
Ismail Kadare’s autobiographical novel “The Doll” is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.
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The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable
In “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” the public health expert Paul Farmer examines the structural and historical inequalities that led to Ebola’s devastating toll.
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Book Review: ‘The Moth and the Mountain,’ by Ed Caesar
“The Moth and the Mountain,” by Ed Caesar, recounts the unlikely story of a man who dreamed of being the first person to ascend Mount Everest.
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Book Review: ‘The Orchard,’ by David Hopen
In David Hopen’s debut novel, “The Orchard,” faith gets put to the test as a boy comes of age.
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