Month: July 2020

In “The Unwomanly Face of War,” an oral history of World War II, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich recounts a strange little story. A woman leaps into dark water to rescue a drowning man. At the shore, however, she realizes it is not a man she has hauled from the water but a gigantic sturgeon. The sturgeon dies. Censors initially cut the scene from Alexievich’s book. You’re not asking about the right things, they remonstrated. Focus … Parul Sehgal- ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’Read more