The Tender Torment of Loving the Ones Who Suffer: Rebecca Spiegel’s “Without Her”

A review of Rebecca Spiegel’s new book “Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief and Love.”

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The “Power of Poetry in Commemorating Personal and Historical Sorrows in Ways Historians Cannot”: Poet Weijia Pan on “Motherlands”

An interview with poet Weijia Pan about his collection “Motherlands,” which uses poetic inquiry to explore the tensions within family relationships in post-Maoist China.

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‘Late Migrations’ Shows Us How Human Experience Mirrors the Natural World

A review of Margaret Renkl’s book, “Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss.”

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