Her final book, a memoir organized by images which traces her life from leaving Prague in 1939 to her decades at The New Yorker, has the clarity and brevity of a book by a writer who knows that time is short, and that there's much to say, our reviewer wrote.
When Cash, who has recently arrived at the end of the Underground Railroad in 1859 Canada, shoots a slave hunter dead, Lensinda is enlisted to collect her side of the story. But instead of defending herself, the old woman proposes an exchange: a tale for a tale. Thomas's novel plumbs Black and Indigenous histories of the Americas, and the power of a story.
A look reveals more than a fingerprint, Engel writes in her second collection, an Editors' Choice pick. Its 10 stories follow Latin Americans across borders of class, nation and the human mind, from a Cuban novelist terrified of his impending move to a Colombian domestic worker who both comforts and flees her employer.
In this deep dive into the inequities illuminated and reified by Covid-19, Thrasher argues that just as marginalized people are made vulnerable to viruses, viruses are also used as justification for the policies and systems that marginalize people in the first place.
When the British still ruled New Zealand, six soldiers wrongfully killed an Indigenous Maori chief. Now, Hana Westerman, a Maori detective, is following a series of murders.
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