Michela Murgia was a voice for minorities and a lightning rod for political debate. She also garnered respect even from a prime minister whose policies she opposed.
Tag: Books and Literature
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An Eccentric Victorian, His Book and the Giant Pink Pastry of a House He Inspired
In “The Octagon House,” published in 1848, Orson Squire Fowler wondered why anyone would build a four-sided home when they could have an eight-sided one.
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I’m a Ukrainian Soldier Who Spent Five Days in a Trench Waiting for Death
Did I really want to fight?
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Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”