by David Diop, trans. by Anna Moschovakis
Spare and devastating, At Night All Blood Is Black by French Senegalese author David Diop is a bone-chilling anti-war treatise. He chooses as backdrop a little-known chapter of World War I annals, when the French government drafted some 200,000 soldiers from its colonies, including Senegal. The unfolding tragedy, involving two 20-year-old "more-than-brothers" conscripted to kill strangers for incomprehensible reasons, resonates far beyond the geographic, political, racial and historical details.
Mademba Diop
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by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's How Should One Read a Book? is an essay for both readers and writers, and this new edition is available as a standalone essay for the first time, framed with an introduction and afterword by Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be?).
Woolf's text recalls the inherent joys of different kinds of reading--no matter what any critics might have to say on the matter. Woolf writes about the personal nature of reading, and how it can be done "to refresh and exercise our own creative powers" as
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by Elizabeth Wein
Three teens in Scotland during World War II find an Enigma machine in Elizabeth Wein's riveting fourth historical YA novel in the Code Name Verity companion series, The Enigma Game.
In November 1940, 15-year-old Louisa Adair takes a job caring for an elderly German woman in the village neighboring the Windyedge Royal Air Force base. This is the closest she can come to her dreams of flying in the war effort since her gender and British-Jamaican heritage bar her from service. Ellen McEwen is an RAF volunteer
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