While dreaming is a common occurrence, they can be unnerving and sometimes very scary. They feel real but are most often ...

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, presents "Dream Count" (Knopf), an intricately woven novel that spans continents and classes.

The children of Gaza, with tears in their eyes, dream of a night without explosions, of a home that is not reduced to rubble, of a school where books are the only thing they have to carry.

In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life assault case as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers ...

With a title as pun-perfect as “I Dream of Joni,” you almost can’t blame Alford, the puckish longtime New Yorker writer and humorist, for writing an entire book to justify it. The subtitle ...

But it was five hundred dollars below book, and I couldn’t resist the bargain. It left me money for Grav’s swimming lessons as well as the monthly book subscription her preschool teacher had ...

Adichie’s new novel, “Dream Count,” is about the dream lives of four West African women living in Maryland, Washington DC, and Abuja, Nigeria: Chiamaka; her hair-braider and housekeeper ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” begins in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdowns, which means that this expansive novel of friendship is tinged from the start by an air of melancholy.

Like Americanah, Dream Count is a big, loose, spacious, digressive, ingenuous book. It takes its characters and their feelings seriously. It has the classic realist hunger to get in as much of the ...

The recent book Poet in the New World collects the poems Miłosz wrote between 1946 and 1953, introduced by one written in 1945. 1 The translations, by Robert Hass and David Frick, resonate with poetic ...

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