A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the subconscious.
Writers who said it all to perfection in a single book and then most decently died
This year’s winner of the literature prize is the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich.
Losing your family’s language can feel like an inevitable side effect of immigration—but it’s one I want to prevent.
Thirty Girls author Susan Minot says great writing—like T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"—is a source of nourishment readers turn to again and again.
Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.
Keeping a culture alive, one step at a time
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Giving them some independence can help rekindle their love of books.