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David Stromberg on the Yiddish novelist Chaim Grade, author of Sons and Daughters

1 week ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Every national literature has its protagonists—and Chaim Grade (1910‑1982), a central figure of modern Yiddish literature, is a lesser-known character in a drama seen by few modern readers. Rooted in a deeply religious, often insular society—its earliest modern forms consisting of tales told orally by Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav in the early nineteenth cen…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Book Post to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Novelist and doctor Anna DeForest reviews Yiyung Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow”

2 weeks ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Now and Now and Now and Now“There is this emptiness in me,” Yiyun Li writes in her 2017 memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. “All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing.” Displacement and abuse were defining conditions of Li’s early life, but her primary problem…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Book Post to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Barry Yourgrau on Nellie Campobello’s memoir Cartucho (Cartridge)

3 weeks ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

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Novelist J. M. Coetzee on being a writer in English

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

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Novelist J. M. Coetzee on being a writer in English

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Robert Fludd, from Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia (1617)In conversation with Mariana DimópulosIn my case, descended from Germanized Poles on my mother’s side and Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa on my father’s, I grew up in Cape Town in an environment where English—the master tongue—seemed to be the way of the future, and an English-language education the best way of ensuring that a child would prosper.
Geoffrey O’Brien reviews ”The Third Reich of Dreams” by Charlotte Beradt, about dreams in Hitler’s Germany

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

“I began to collect the dreams that the Nazi dictatorship had as it were dictated”: this is how Charlotte Beradt (1907–1986) describes the subversive and dangerous project she undertook in 1933. A Jewish journalist and Communist Party member, she had been barred from publishing soon after Hitler’s ascent to power, but managed to survive under the new regime until she was able to get out of Germany in 1939.
Book Post editor Ann Kjellberg on Trump Administration removal of documents and data sets from the internet

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

On Thursday, veteran Washington correspondent April Ryan reported on efforts she had heard about from sources to transport the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and on a letter that Dr. Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, had received informing him that a Bible and a volume of an early work of African American history were being returned to him by the museum.
Sarah Ruden reviews books by Rebecca West

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Editor’s note: Today’s post on Rebecca West became unexpectedly timely as Bill Owens, the executive producer of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” resigned yesterday after being pressured by CBS’s parent company to vet the show’s stories ahead of airing them.
Review: Joy Williams on Studying Animal Grief

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Susana Monsó is a Spanish philosophy professor who has written a book, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death. It has a bright pink cover and has received an inordinately respectful amount of attention.
Journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc reviews Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stolen Pride”

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

I sometimes write on the top floor of an old Vermont woolen mill near its once necessary river. I fell for the space because I grew up in a New England factory town and my strongest ties connect to such buildings. I am always drawn to them, to what their emptiness holds still. I learned about the power of absence from my father, an industrial laborer who became a union organizer for the Chemical Workers Union.