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I would recommend her novel, The Kukotsky Enigma.

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jonathan-eig Also notable among this year’s Pulitzers is a major new biography of MLK.

Could you elaborate? I don’t know his work and I’m curious to hear more…

Plus you have Louise Erdrich and Birchbark Books.

I hope you and your loved ones are safe, and the same for all the Brazilians on the forum.

All things considered, I’m not sure it is any more brave than living in any other parts of the US that have been ravaged by climate change over the past couple decades. Also hard to say whether I’m on high ground—the townhouse where my husband & I live escaped the widespread flooding of...

That is exactly what she has managed to do, and yes it is awesome.

The article here indicates that "she emigrated to the United States in 1989." But her Wikipedia biography lists her nationality as "Mexican." At any rate, I am proud to point out that she is a long-time faculty member of the university where I work.

https://stories.uh.edu/2024-rivera-garza-pulitzer/index.html Whose house? Coogs' house! (The University of Houston mascot is a cougar.)

I highly recommend Just Above My Head, it is everything you said about Baldwin's late work (passionate, lived-in, and messy) and much more. And it contains an unforgettable evocation of the music of the era. Prepare a good soundtrack for reading this novel, with lots of Coltrane, Brubeck, and...

I just came across this essay by the translator of some of Fosse's plays into (American) English: https://lithub.com/how-jon-fosse-teaches-us-to-acknowledge-our-own-vulnerability/ It gives an insight into the principle of repetition in his work, and it is fascinating to read about the choices...

This is depressing on so many different levels.

Thank you for this!

I loved you: and the feeling, why deceive you, May not be quite extinct within me yet; (Walter Arndt, trans.) You make a very good point! I found a nice overview of different attempts to English this poem here...

I know this is slightly longer than what you need, but it is both accessible and important: Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction If you are looking for something more of a classic, and again, slightly longer than the length...