H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
When her father died suddenly, the world stopped making sense to Helen Macdonald. “A kind of madness drifted in,” she recalls. “Time didn’t run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could...
Category: Biography & Memoir
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes captures the measure of the man. From the first letter to the last, a portrait of a complete artist emerges. Hughes was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist who...
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields
★★☆☆☆ Personal memoir and statistical enumeration intertwine in David Shields’ genre-defying reflection upon death. Shields’ (I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, 2015, etc.) unique memoir is a meditation upon life’s brevity and its...
