[ad_1] Review The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth By Elizabeth RushMilkweed: 424 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. We have long spoken of journeys to the poles as going “to the ends of… Continue reading Review: Elizabeth Rush’s Antarctic book ‘The Quickening’
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[ad_1] The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, by Stephen Buoro (Bloomsbury). Andrew Aziza, the Nigerian teen-ager who is the protagonist of this début novel, describes himself as a “genius poet altar boy who loves blondes.” A Christian who lives in a largely Muslim town, Andy feels ashamed of his preference for the West, which… Continue reading Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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[ad_1] The Centre, by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Gillian Flynn). The protagonist of this mystery is a young Pakistani Londoner who earns money writing English subtitles for Bollywood films and longs to translate literary classics. When she receives an invitation to the Centre, a secretive language school that produces native-level fluency in ten days, she enrolls,… Continue reading Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker