World Books Review: African ‘Dreams in a Time of War’

A compelling African memoir whose unblinking candor about human behavior suggests the iconoclastic, unsentimental approach of such authors as Czesław Miłosz and I.B. Singer, writers whose recreation of a vanished world is tough-minded rather than sentimental.

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World Books Review: Reading Jung’s “Red Book”

An examination of the recent publication and translation into English (ninety years after it was begun) of Carl Gustav Jung’s confessional meditation “The Red Book.” The volume stands in a select company of books that exerted an enormous influence on social and intellectual history even while it remained unpublished.

Three memoirs by women

Author and critic Helen Epstein talks to World Books Editor Bill Marx about three recent memoirs by women, each with a distinctive international flavor. The pair evaluate Jan Wong’s “A Comrade Lost and Found,” Christina Thompson’s “Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All,” and Jane Alison’s “The Sisters Antipodes.”