A prequel to “The Hunger Games,” a love letter to French cooking, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld that reimagines Hillary Clinton’s life and much more.
By Joumana Khatib
Was the Arab Spring a failure? There is a sense that the protests across the Middle East in 2011 failed to bring about any enduring, positive change, except in Tunisia. But Feldman, a Harvard professor, argues that the uprisings marked a significant cultural and political shift empowering people in the region — even if they brought about tragic outcomes in some countries, including the Syrian war and the rise of ISIS.
A villain becomes the hero of this “Hunger Games” prequel, set in Panem 64 years before the events of Collins’s hugely popular trilogy. Coriolanus Snow, whom “Hunger Games” readers met as Panem’s brutal dictator, is a young man eager to carve out his own path to success and power.