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In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival

June 09, 2021

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Richard Russo Misses the Purity of Childhood Reading

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Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

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Conjuring a 17th-Century Witch Hunt, With Echoes of Our Own Day

Inspired by events in East Anglia, England, in 1645, “The Witching Tide,” by Margaret Meyer, evokes the climate of fear and accusation that grips a town with the arrival of a “witchfinder.” Elizabeth Graver | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

For Elaine Castillo, Reading Is Politics

The essays in “How to Read Now” raise serious concerns about interpretation, inheritance and human understanding. “White supremacy makes for terrible readers, writes Elaine Castillo in her essay collection "How to Read Now." The sentence, like the title of the book, is both a dig and a dare that blossoms into an urgent plea: "We need to change how we read." For Castillo, who was born in California to Filipino immigrants, this "we" is "generally American"; her book is aimed at the underprivileged groups who make up a sizable portion of the United States. Read more in the article by JANE HU | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival

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