Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relat
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Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography
He soon won a research studentship but was denied a fellowship at All Souls, a rebuff that rankled for the rest of his life. In , he became a fellow of Merton, relieving him of any need to finish his doctorate. Instead, he produced a brashly revisionist study of Archbishop Laud that established animosity towards organised religion as his intellectual trademark.
In and , HT-R visited Germany with the intention of learning the language. The second stay left him deeply suspicious of National Socialism. In his eyes, it had all the trappings of a fanatical religious sect. The Munich crisis convinced him that Hitler was on the warpath. After reading Mein Kampf he threw himself into the Officer Training Corps.
Trevor-Roper had a "good war" in an intelligence unit monitoring German radio traffic. It was nominally under MI5, but his superiors fought endless turf wars that he believed harmed the distribution of vital information. Eventually, he used his acquaintanceship with Frederick Lindemann, Lord Cherwell, one of Churchill's scientific advisers, to blow the whistle. It was insubordination, but he was right and ended up getting promoti
The Best of Non Fiction
Salman Rushdie - Knife
An obvious choice, perhaps, but this reflective and thoughtful autobiographical book by the Salman Rushdie recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in A meditation on life, love, art and violence, as well as many other things, it’s an ode to endurance and a reflection of culture today.
Sloane Crosley - Grief is For People
Following a break-in to her apartment and the suicide of a close friend, Grief is for People is more than just a grief memoir. Crosley's search for truth is frank, darkly funny, and gilded with a resounding empathy. This is also a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship and category-defying story of the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it.
Hanif Abdurraqib - There’s Always This Year
Growing up in Ohio, in the s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged - and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and e
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