The (Recent) Past is a Foreign Country
Explore captivating books that reveal how the recent past feels like a foreign country. Discover insightful reads on history, culture, and change to understand our evolving world.
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We Think the World of You
by Joe Randolph Ackerley
"Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a …
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Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
A novel recounting the lives and actions of the passengers on a ship en route from Mexico to Germany in 1931.
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Morte D'Urban
by J.F. Powers
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who …
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