The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.
Tag: Books and Literature
A Science Fiction Writer Wrestles With China’s Rise, and His Own Decline
In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true.
How a Booker Prize-Winning Work From India Redefined Translation
An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English language.
The Prize-Winning Novel Challenging ‘Ableist Machismo’ in Japan
Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”
Plot Twists
The best art makes us question the received ideas we’ve internalized and, just maybe, offers us ideas for living differently.
Plot Twists
The best art makes us question the received ideas we’ve internalized and, just maybe, offers us ideas for living differently.
Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
A Push to Remove Symbols of Imperial Russia Divides Odesa, Ukraine
A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history.
Memory Palace
Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.