Collage of book covers: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; A Time to Kill by John Grisham; Killing Time by Caleb Carr; Stories are Weapons by Annalee Newitz; Tell Me a Story by Daniel Taylor; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

6 Degrees of Separation: On Time and Storytelling

This month we start with the 2024 winner of the International Booker Prize, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann). Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and

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Literary Links: Life Stories in Literature

Writing About Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish Novelist Tope Folarin examines the work of French novelist Édouard Louis. But first, Folarin quotes from The Good Story, a 2015 book by the Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, co-authored with Arabella Kurtz, a clinical psychologist. Folarin calls The Good Story “a searching, erudite treatise about the stories

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