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Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.
The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...
The tradition of displaying the deceased ahead of a funeral is hardly unique, but certain Ghanaian communities elevate the ...
Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells, a writer, put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own ...
About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...
The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science ...
Curtis Wilson escaped his father’s troubled world and grasped his lifelong dream of becoming a cellist. Then, he almost lost ...
El Akkad writes, “It is pointless, even, to make the obvious analogies, to imagine the response had almost any other country ...