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Traces of Enayat

by Meg Nola

Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

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Exquisite Dreams

by Meg Nola

Amy Lyford’s interpretive biography "Exquisite Dreams" covers artist Dorothea Tanning’s life and remarkable range of work. Born in 1910, Tanning recalled her Galesburg, Illinois, childhood as being a “good one.” She later found a... Read More

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The Witch of New York

by Meg Nola

A riveting true crime story from history, Alex Hortis’s "The Witch of New York" chronicles the misogynist frenzy surrounding a notorious murder trial. On Christmas in 1843, a gruesome discovery horrified the close-knit community of... Read More

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Mothers of the Mind

by Meg Nola

Rachel Trethewey’s "Mothers of the Mind" is a studied, reflective analysis of the relationships between three literary icons and their mothers. Virginia Woolf’s mother, Julia, is presented as a woman of remarkable beauty who rejected... Read More

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Chaim Weizmann

by Meg Nola

Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani’s "Chaim Weizmann" is an expansive and engrossing study of the Zionist leader and Israel’s “founding father.” Born in 1874, Weizmann grew up in Russian-controlled Poland. Within his family,... Read More

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