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4 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Catherine Hall |Katie Kitamura |Brandon Shimoda |Rebecca Boyle
Charting an Unheroic Past With her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Katie Kitamura |Jake Nevins
What happens when a grand dame, a former child star, an indie darling, a veteran underdog, and an alcoholic ingénue compete for the best actress award? No, I’m not talking about this year’s Oscar race; that’s the premise of The Talent, the debut novel by Daniel D’Addario. “An awards season inherently has a degree of pitched up emotion where it’s almost primal, this desire to be accepted and lauded,” the author says.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Mikaela Lefrak |Kaveh Akbar |Katie Kitamura |Miles Copeland III
Cold weather means cozying up with a good book. How can a book worm choose when there's so many options? Count on Vermont Edition's winter book show as a guide for some good reads. Claire Benedict, co-owner of Bear Pond Books, along with Randal Smathers, director of the Rutland Free Library, and Megan Butterfield, youth library manager at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, give us their recommendations for the year and suggestions for readers of all ages.
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May 20, 2024 | 
panmacmillan.com | Salman Rushdie |James Wood |Katie Kitamura |Amitava Kumar
'This profound book is full of lives whose beauty lies in the wholeness of their telling.' – Salman Rushdie'Kumar's late father’s life breaks like a slowly cresting wave over the sad and joyful ground of this story . . . Always deeply human; the heart is everywhere in these pages . . . Kumar's beautiful, truthful fiction . . .
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May 3, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Marguerite Duras |Mike Fu |Katie Kitamura |Esther Yi
Reading Lists Characters experiencing geographical and emotional displacement who redefine their relationships, and themselves, on new grounds I have spent nearly all my adult life living in foreign countries. That includes working, dating, marrying, and now—parenting abroad. Aside from the potential challenges of language and geography, what it means for a woman to be in a foreign land is to understand and navigate the joys and threats of womanhood particular to another culture. A woman...
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May 3, 2024 | 
travelandleisureasia.com | Katie Kitamura
Home Destinations Asia This Design-Forward Resort Town In Japan Is The Perfect Mountain Retreat In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and travelled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture, a little over an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen. When we stepped off the train, the air was bracingly cold. We were surrounded by forest, gentle drifts of snow, and a rare and delicious quiet.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
travelandleisureasia.com | Katie Kitamura
In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and travelled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture, a little over an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen. When we stepped off the train, the air was bracingly cold. We were surrounded by forest, gentle drifts of snow, and a rare and delicious quiet. Hovering over the landscape was stately Mount Asama, its summit tipped with white. I had heard about Karuizawa for what felt like the entirety of my childhood.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
travelandleisure.com | Katie Kitamura
Trending Videos From left: Shigeru Ban's Shishi-Iwa House No. 1; the shared lounge at the Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House No. 2. Photo: Max HoutzagerIn late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture, a little over an hour from Tokyo by shinkansen. When we stepped off the train, the air was bracingly cold. We were surrounded by forest, gentle drifts of snow, and a rare and delicious quiet.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Nicole Dennis-Benn |Yaa Gyasi |Katie Kitamura |Colm Toibin
Skip to content Reading Lists Sheila Sundar, author of "Habitations," recommends books about women who are trying to make sense of their adopted country and find their place in it I first heard the term “smart women adrift” from my graduate school professor, Sigrid Nunez—herself a master of writing incisive female characters. At the time, the term made me laugh, because it opened an umbrella over a type of literary woman who had long existed, unclassified, in my literary consciousness, and...
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Katie Kitamura
She calls herself a “near-perfect mother”; to her husband, she is a “peerless mother.” Yet one day, Marlyne Principaux drowns her three children in the bath before arranging their bodies in her bed. This is the horror story that underpins Marie NDiaye’s new novel, Vengeance Is Mine. But as shocking as these details are, Ndiaye pivots from them to focus instead on a more oblique drama involving the lawyer enlisted to defend the accused woman.
