When the Nazis came to power, the writer Charlotte Beradt began collecting people’s dreams. The resulting book uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious.
Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.
A new book reprints some of the striking photographs and statistical graphics that Du Bois and his curators commissioned for an exhibit at the 1900 World’s Fair.
Like Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad” and Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West,” Yoko Ogawa’s novel transforms a familiar metaphor into imaginative truth.
The book, which reads like a Flaubert novel, humanizes Marx, and shows him as a flawed family man who likely never would have produced his world-changing writings if it weren’t for his long-suffering wife.