Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman is an internationally renowned writer and academic. Her most important publications include Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language, Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, The Secret, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust, and Time. She teaches on the MA course at Kingston, London.
Books by Eva Hoffman
“Eva Hoffman has taken on the Polish poet and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Czesław Miłosz, in her latest book: On Czesław Miłosz. It’s a personal response to Milosz’s life and work, about a man who experienced firsthand some of the horrors of the 20th century.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
“I think it was a brilliant idea to approach one’s past through language. She grew up in post-holocaust Poland before she emigrated to Canada.” Read more...
Lyndall Gordon, Biographer
Interviews with Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman recommends the best Memoirs
To tell your own story is to confront and construct your deepest sense of self. The author of Lost in Translation tells us about five striking memoirs of identity, dislocation, and belonging.
Interviews where books by Eva Hoffman were recommended
The Best Literary Biographies, recommended by Lyndall Gordon
The inner life is a mystery but the best biographies expose the hidden kernel of a person, says literary biographer and academic, Lyndall Gordon. She picks five books that push the boundaries of the genre.
Books on the Refugee Experience, recommended by Shahram Khosravi
To understand what makes integration fail or succeed we need to know why migrants moved in the first place, says Shahram Khosravi, Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and author of Young and Defiant in Tehran and ‘Illegal’ Traveller.
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
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Vergil: The Poet's Life (Ancient Lives)
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
by Sebastian Edwards
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
As summer collapses into fall across the northern hemisphere, Five Books editor Sophie Roell takes a look at the nonfiction books that have been published over the last three months. Reading serious nonfiction books remains the easiest way to get up to speed on not only things you’re already interested in, but lots of things you didn’t know you didn’t know.
