By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...
An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...
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Hurston, the author of the Harlem renaissance classic “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” passed away in 1960, and this unfinished novel was never published until now. It’s a sequel of sorts to ...