‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading | Books
Malala YousafzaiActivistI have loved going to the theatre ever since I saw my first musical (Matilda in London, when I was 15 years old) – and I love reading about it, too. In Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, a British-Palestinian actor travels to the West Bank to see family and finds herself pulled into a local production of Hamlet. I was moved by the rehearsal scenes: arguments over translations, personal relationships, the question of whether a performance is even possible under Israeli occupation. To me, Hammad proved that theatre is capable of carrying weight that other art forms cannot hold. David Miliband CEO of the International Rescue CommitteeFree: Coming of Age at the End of History, a book about growing up in Albania, the last Stalinist country in Europe, doesn’t sound like a rollicking good read, but Lea Ypi’s book, published in 2021, is at once hilarious and serious, appalling in its description of the lies and tentacles of the regime of Enver Hoxha and touching in its humanity, particular in its focus and universal in …
