A conversation with the editors about the painstaking process of selecting the 10 Best Books of the year.
Tag: Books and Literature
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Paju, South Korea’s City of Books
With some 900 book-related businesses, Paju Book City, northwest of Seoul, is an intentional and euphoric celebration of books and the bookmaking process.
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94
He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of peasants, merchants and clergymen.
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Why Do Evil and Suffering Exist? Religion Has One Answer, Literature Another.
In the third installment of an essay series on literature and faith, Ayana Mathis explores how writers have grappled with one of theology’s oldest conundrums.
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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Visits Tolkien Exhibition in Rome
Italy’s Culture Ministry has opened a curious show dedicated to the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien — and perhaps a new front in the culture wars. It’s “beautiful.” Just ask the prime minister.