Each week, our editors and critics recommend the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about books. Now, as 2023 comes to an end, we've chosen a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry.
This vivid, searching début collection traverses and troubles borders between nations, languages, lovers, the past and the present, the living and the dead; combining reflections on art and history with astute observations of everyday life, Gonzalez contends with the world's capacity for profound suffering and for near-unbearable beauty in equal measure.
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