"The Book of Memory" by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah is a fiercely vivid novel that in some places — particularly, unfortunately, its opening pages — takes itself too seriously.

There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive ...

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The term “collective memory” was established not by a psychologist but by the French philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs, in a book published in 1925.