Grace D. Li’s debut, “Portrait of a Thief,” is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
Tag: Books and Literature
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Novelist Samantha Hunt Revisits Her ‘Haunted’ Childhood Home
In her fifth book, Samantha Hunt describes finding a manuscript left behind by her late father in the family’s 18th-century house.
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U.T. Austin Acquires Archives That Give Insight Into the 1960s
The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in American history.
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Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius
These journals offer a view of the philosopher’s preoccupations, his sexual anguish, his struggles with work and his time in the military.