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Books make you feel at home in the world. Here are some that are wonderful traveling companions.

14 Bastille Day Books to Read

Fourteen literary sparklers to add to the fireworks celebrating Bastille Day on July Fourteenth

Mamta Chaudhry Recommends Five Novels Recounted by the Dead

Death’s portal opens in only one direction, but they are compelled to return, these revenants, some to watch, some to wait, some to want and want and not to have.

Sunlight on a fallen spire: impressions of a cathedral ablaze

Our bags are packed for Paris, the taxi already at the door, when a friend texts that Notre-Dame is on fire. My hands shaking, I unpack the laptop I had switched off and put away. Hearing my wail, my husband rushes back into the house to see me staring at the screen with tears running down my face.