After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways.
“When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases and exclamations, I always think — how many novels disappear without a trace!” the writer Svetlana Alexievich said.
The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.
County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked.
Kamala Harris’s book reveals why she should not be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028, according to the New York Times Opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen in this week’s round table from “The Opinions.”
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
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