Often marginalized by critics during his life, M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is now famous for woodcuts and lithographs that roam the wild frontier of mathematics: images of rooms that warp and buckle, ...

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien intricately blends historical and speculative fiction to tackle contemporary global issues. It explores migration, the refugee crisis, identity politics and ...

Madeleine Thien’s inventive and ambitious fourth novel, “The Book of Records,” opens with maximum intrigue. A seven-year-old Chinese girl named Lina disembarks from a sea vessel with her father to ...

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