This book’s narrative thread is evidently part-biographical ... The insurgents had massacred cadets from Hafez’s Alawite sect, and after an attempt on Hafez the regime had responded with a massacre of ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

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In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.