Harlan Margaret Van Cao and Lan Cao / Courtesy of Penguin Random House Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter (Viking, 2020) is a memoir written in alternating narrati…

Jurij Koch / Courtesy of Domowina-Verlag In the 1950s, a girl whom Jurij Koch knew in high school moved away from their hometown of Cottbus in East Germany. It was a case, he says in his recent memoi…

Photo: Blake Weyland / Unsplash In this excerpt from Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher Mihaela Miroiu’s memoir, Miroiu looks back to her early days in a Transylvanian village,…

Image: MyBookmark/Etsy News, Reviews, and Interviews  This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership.  Slovenian author Al…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  This week on the Race Matters radio show, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas discusses race and immigration with WLT art director Merleyn Be…

Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews  Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte…

Joshua Safran Writer, lawyer, and occasional rabbi Joshua Safran’s new book, Free Spirit: Growing up on the Road and off the Grid, chronicles a childhood spent on the r…

“Resiliency is the transformative process in life that changes the dark coal of adversity into a brilliant clear diamond of strength. It is the force that energizes us to grow through diversity or cha…