Books
Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
January 24, 2022Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.
Read moreThree important books on race in America for deep winter reading
January 10, 2022Let’s consider a trio of books that can be helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of racism, both its practice and its ideological components, including in the current period.
Read more‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.
December 27, 2021The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.
Read moreManuel Tiago’s ‘Border Crossings’: People’s World interviews the translator
December 21, 2021The latest volume in International Publishers' Manuel Tiago series, Border Crossings, has just been released. PW talks with Eric Gordon, the English translator.
Read moreStefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany
December 17, 2021Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.
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