Books – XXinfos

"How do you truly capture the reality of this moment?" George Saunders reflects on ghosts, mortality, and America under Trump.

Like his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, George Saunders’s new novel is…

In the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, one image stayed with me: a book I had translated from English…

Over the past year, we’ve been spoiled with memoirs from high-profile stars like Cher, Patti Smith, and Anthony Hopkins. But…

1. BERNARDINE EVARISTO Who is considered the world’s first known author? Priestess Enheduanna from Mesopotamia – lived c. 2300 BC…

We are all part of history. Many of the challenges and opportunities we encounter are shaped not by our personal…

On the night of November 2, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. His brutally beaten body was discovered the next…

8. The Autograph Man (2002) After the massive success of White Teeth—which famously sold for a six-figure sum while Zadie…

In her memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein who died by suicide in…

As a child, I devoured books until my eyes grew blurry. When my GCSEs arrived, I had the focus of…

When a world-renowned historian, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, and a former politician come together to talk about the state…