Jonathan Mahler

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Lashawn Harris |Howard French |Jonathan Mahler

Sarah Aziza. Catapult, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64622-243-8Palestinian-American journalist and Fulbright fellow Aziza delivers a visceral debut autobiography that braids mental illness, queer identity, and generational trauma into a striking meditation on exile.

4 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Olia Hercules |Lashawn Harris |Howard French |Jonathan Mahler

Chef and cookbook author Hercules (Home Food) blends personal history with political urgency in this poignant account of her family’s roots in Ukraine. What begins as a visceral tale of survival and cultural preservation—Hercules recounts the emotional turmoil of persuading her parents, uncle, and aunt to flee Kakhovka in southeastern Ukraine and reunite in northern Italy after Russia invaded in 2022—soon becomes a meditation on the century that Hercules’s ancestors have spent in the region.

1 month ago | focus.de | Jonathan Mahler

Zerrüttete MonarchieIm Murdoch-Clan tobt der Erbstreit um sein MedienimperiumVon „Fox News“, über das „Wall Street Journal“ bis zur „Sunday Times“: Er baute das wichtigste Medienimperium der Welt auf. Doch für sein Vermächtnis zerstörte Rupert Murdoch seine Familie. Es war Anfang Dezember 2023, als sich der legendäre New Yorker Verleger Rupert Murdoch auf den Weg nach London machte, um seine beiden ältesten Töchter, Prudence (Prue) und Elisabeth (Liz), zu besuchen.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Mahler

What explains the Trump administration's radical reversal toward Moscow? Credit... Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan In 1989, shortly before the fall of communism, Boris Yeltsin - the reformer who would soon become the first freely elected president of post-Soviet Russia - visited a supermarket in Houston, Texas, and was overwhelmed by the dizzying array of meats and vegetables on offer. "What have we done to our poor people?" he later asked an associate traveling with him.

Feb 16, 2025 | mailchi.mp | Elizabeth Johnson |Susan Freinkel |Hank Azaria |Jonathan Mahler

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