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Medieval History That Complicates the Dark-Ages Cliché
Medieval History That Complicates the Dark-Ages Cliché
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A gold animal in a southern African burial and an English monk’s notes on the planets offer two ways into the centuries often called the Dark Ages. These books follow the evidence people left...
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Labor History Books That Show How Change Was Won
Labor History Books That Show How Change Was Won
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A strike can start over a cut in pay and end up relying on people who live hundreds of miles away. These books follow what workers did between making a demand and getting someone to answer it...
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Books About Science as a Human History
Books About Science as a Human History
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A glass plate full of stars, a tape measure in a lab, and a packet of seeds sent across the Atlantic all have a place in the history of science. These books follow people collecting, testing, and...
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Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
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A reading map for discovering how a novel can change the way time, thought and a speaking voice reach us. Each writer has a suggested book that makes her particular experiment tangible, from...
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Historical Translators Who Carried Ideas Across Languages
Historical Translators Who Carried Ideas Across Languages
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A translation can give a text a new set of readers and put it to work in a debate its author never heard. These translators carried astronomy, scripture, fables, and novels across languages. Start...
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Funny Novels in Translation
Funny Novels in Translation
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Comedy is the hardest thing to carry across a language. Puns die, slang dates, and a joke that depends on knowing how a Soviet housing committee worked can land with a thud. These novels were all...
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Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
Science Fiction About Language and the Limits of Understanding
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Knowing the words may still leave you unsure what somebody has promised, what counts as a person, or whether a signal was meant for you at all. These books make that gap consequential. Foreigner...
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Modernist Novels That Give You a Way In
Modernist Novels That Give You a Way In
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A change of viewpoint or time can become easier to follow when you know what to hold onto. These novels and novellas offer concrete routes into modernist writing: a household, a day, a journey, a...
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Books to Give When You Are Still Learning Someone's Taste
Books to Give When You Are Still Learning Someone's Taste
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An interest can tell you more than a favourite-author quiz: cooking, animals, buildings, words or a well-told story each offers a way into a book. These choices have clear premises and different...
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Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
Books That Make a Long Train Journey Fly By
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A good train book establishes its voice quickly and gives you a reason to return after a platform change or an announcement. These choices range from mysteries and speculative adventures to...
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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
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A change of speaker can change what counts as the problem. These novels give different accounts and perspectives room to expose conflicting loyalties, private needs and unequal power. Some...
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Science Fiction in Translation That Expands the Genre
Science Fiction in Translation That Expands the Genre
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Science fiction changes when its histories, narrative habits and routes into English change. These books move from spacefaring adventures and time travel to climate crime, political satire...
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Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
Novels Where the Narrator's Voice Is the Main Attraction
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Some novels earn another page because of the person apparently speaking it. These choices favour distinctive rhythms, obsessions, evasions and ways of addressing a listener, from intimate...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
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Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
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Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
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Ten minutes can hold a complete encounter: a poem, an essay, a letter, a comic or one clearly bounded episode. These books give you natural stopping points and a welcoming way back after a gap...
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