Esther Gerritsen
Craving (fiction)
Trans. Michele Hutchinson
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In Dutch writer Esther Gerritsen’s Craving, readers follow Coco, who moves in with her dying mother as a m…
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July 13, 2018Liu Xia, poet, artist, and wife of the late 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, was released this week after eight years of house arrest in China. From our January 2018 issue, Ming Di writes…
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June 15, 2018Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups. This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published…
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