"Deeply felt and evocative. . . . Alive with characters and unafraid to examine ambiguous emotional complexities, this a moving debut." —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings and BelzharSpanning seventy years and several continents, this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters.In 1946, Walter Westhaus, a German Jew who spent the war years at Tagore's ashram...

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on...

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the...

É como uma longa conversa entre uma mulher e a melhor amiga: ela confessa que é introvertida, embora tenha uma profissão que pareça exigir exatamente o contrário; já saiu com caras que foram um completo desastre, mas também já teve em mãos o equivalente humano de um príncipe da Disney e fez com ele só um sexozinho casual. Precisou de anos de terapia para entender que a mãe não é perfeita, mas que é possível amá-la mesmo assim, e de uma grande dose de coragem para admitir que já est...

Women now represent over half of medical school matriculants, almost half of residents and fellows, and over a third of practicing physicians nationally. Despite considerable representation among the physician workforce, women are paid 75 cents on the dollar compared with their male counterparts after accounting for specialty, geography, time in practice, and average hours per week worked. This pay gap is significantly greater than the one reported for US women workers as a whole and has s...