Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
history + memoir
4 books tagged both “history” and “memoir”.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
2,223-word summary · 10 min read
Night
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year…
2,594-word summary · 12 min read
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still reads like a…
1,913-word summary · 9 min read