In his letters and poetry, Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke urged us to “love the questions” instead of searching for answers, and to “sing out” with pain solitude causes them. His writing seems tailor-made for our own era a dark interval of uncertainty, solitude, and grief.
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America s history is largely one of immigration, and the best way to learn about those experiences is to read stories by immigrants.
We ve rounded up 16 contemporary memoirs, non-fiction books, and anthologies by immigrant and refugee authors, including Ilhan Omar, Meredith Talusan, and Diane Guerrero.
America is defined by waves of immigration, with each individual story constituting a precious thread in its long and complicated history. Works by immigrant or refugee authors detail the tangible and intangible expeditions made by those who leave behind all they know.