Truthdig Nominated for 15 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2019 Winners will be announced Dec. 1 by the Los Angeles Press Club. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lost in India

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Sep 6, 2019 In "The Twice-Born," a Pakistani-Indian journalist living in London travels back to India on a personal quest, but is unsure what he is searching for. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Speaking the Unspoken

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Mar 23, 2019 Julie Delporte's autobiographical graphic novel wrestles with issues of sexual abuse, fantasies of motherhood, and the creation of art. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Fearlessly Exploring the Emotional Fallout From Sexual Trauma

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Nov 10, 2017 A newly translated memoir, "Incest," uses chaotic and explosive prose to show author Christine Angot’s journey through trauma. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Autumn

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig Sep 15, 2017 Karl Ove Knausgaard set the literary world on fire with his six-volume novel, "My Struggle." His new book is a meditation on life, time and family. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Rebel Mother

By Elaine Margolin Apr 28, 2017 Peter Andreas' memoir explores a "childhood chasing the revolution" as the son of an impulsive, self-centered political radical who cloaked her narcissism behind pro-Marxist rhetoric. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty

By Elaine Margolin Mar 3, 2017 A granddaughter of the journalist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement explores the relationship between Day and her only child. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Where the Jews Aren’t

By Elaine Margolin Sep 2, 2016 A new book examines the brief history of an autonomous Jewish region in Russia, founded in 1929. It lasted until Stalin ordered the eradication of its Jewish identity in 1948, burning Yiddish books, banning the Yiddish language, and executing by firing squad its Yiddish writers. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This

By Elaine Margolin Aug 19, 2016 Nadja Spiegelman's new memoir is an attempt to decode her mother's wounds: "The past was always there on her body, but I couldn't see it It was underneath everything else: the blueprint we both carried". Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics

By Elaine Margolin Jul 9, 2016 In a new collection of her essays, Cynthia Ozick impresses us with flashes of brilliance but always seems to be mourning the magic, beauty and intellectual rigor of an earlier time. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )