A novel about being “seen” in a world that scatters us, Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny faces, names, and transforms the private hurt so many of us … Read more
What do you do when truth is forbidden, when art is censored, and the Devil walks freely in Moscow? The Master and Margarita solves the problem of ideological suffocation by … Read more
Every society struggles to balance passion with principle, and Jane Eyre gives us a heroine who proves that integrity and independence can coexist with love. The problem it solves? Showing … Read more
The Remains of the Day is a 1989 historical novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in the UK by Faber and Faber and in the US … Read more
Desertion is a critically acclaimed novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Gurnah, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2021), is celebrated for his profound portrayals … Read more
Gone With the Wind 1939 is a historical romance film based on American novelist Margaret Mitchell’s novel of the same name. Set in the American Civil War, unlike the novel, … Read more