Six memoirs and biographies to add to your reading list
A pick of the top new reads on bookshelves
05 May 2022 - 05:00
Translating Myself and Others, Jumpha Lahiri
When novelist and essayist Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-winning author for her 1999 debut, Interpreter of Maladies, decided to begin writing in Italian, the literary world was nonplussed. Why would someone at the height of her career take on the challenge of writing in another language?..
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