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  >> Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times  Published: 13 May 2021 12:55 PM BdST Updated: 13 May 2021 12:55 PM BdST Israeli artillery in action near Sderot, Israel, during a new round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Dan Balilty/New York Times) A new front opened in the military showdown between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday as a wave of mob violence between Jews and Arabs spread across several Israeli cities, leading to riots and attacks in the streets as rockets and missiles streaked across the sky. "); } Israel said it assas...

If you’ve read anything about Imbolo Mbue, you probably already know that she was inspired to start writing after plucking Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon from an Oprah’s Book Club picks shelf at a public library in Virginia. (She thought it would be a Biblical story.) As a kid in Cameroon, she fell in love with books reading Shakespeare, Dickens, and Achebe, and public libraries were a haven when she moved to America at 17. She first arrived in Chicago (“too cold, too windy”), then attended Rutgers University in New Jersey and Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, whe...

Imbolo Mbue on Andre Agassi,‘The Friend,’ and the Book She'd Like to See As a Netflix Series ELLE 4 days ago Riza Cruz © Portrait by Kiriko Sano / Illustration by Yousra Attia The PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of How Beautiful We Were on Andre Agassi,'The Friend,' and the Book She'd Like to See As a Netflix Series. Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series...