A Novel About the Costs of Family Secrets
In Quiara Alegría Hudes’s The White Hot, they hurt the people they’re meant to protect.

In Quiara Alegría Hudes’s The White Hot, they hurt the people they’re meant to protect.

These seven books aren’t a cure for rage and despair. Think of them instead as a prescription.

Reading may not be a salve for loneliness, but there’s nothing like the rush of being seen by literature.

The unique feeling of sharing parents, or of growing up together, makes this relationship unlike any other.

After Russia’s invasion, many post-Soviet immigrants in the U.S. are estranged from or barely speaking with longtime friends back home.
