Rebecca Skloot narrates this poignant story of Henrietta's life and enduring impact on the medical world, questioning what bodily autonomy mean along the way. This book offers an extraordinary ...
and the final week of this month is also annually celebrated as National Book Week. We’re getting more recognition now in global literary circles, not only through awards but also with more ...
1. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World: $30) The National Book Award winner travels to three sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell, and the ones we don’t, shape our realities.
As a resident of the walled town, the narrator works at a library that archives not books but spherical objects containing “old dreams” that he is tasked with reading. Assisting him is a young ...
It is up to us to help them, as well as the ones who can’t. Book bans are antithetical to free speech and free thought. They are antidemocratic, antiscience and antievidence. Reading this ...