In Search of a Faith Beyond Religion
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah suggests that some people must look outside the traditional bounds of Christianity to find true spiritual freedom.
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Claire Messud tells a complicated and ambivalent tale about her French family’s history in Algeria.
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For Édouard Louis, revisiting the past is an act of survival.
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This year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Justin Torres’s Blackouts is a complex story about recovering the history of erased and ignored gay lives.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jupiterimages / Getty. Colson Whitehead Loses the Plot
Crook Manifesto is both powered and limited by its most absorbing characteristic: the author’s voice.
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The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez shows how violence can haunt and destabilize a civilization.
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Namwali Serpell’s new book explores grief as it’s really experienced.
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